Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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People may be expressed their lies in a variety of ways. They often use them just here and there to cover up the situation based on what they have faced. Some lies will help others to feel better, and some might hurt other later if they find out the truth. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is an autobiographical journal about her life and her family. The Walls' parents regularly moving from city to city because of the lack of security in parenthood and their failure to keep their jobs. She also mentions that after she moves to New York City and has stable life, she ends up finding out that her parents have been lying to her the entire time and letting her and her sibling live without food and stay in a house that do not have a full roof to call home. Related to the lie that Walls brings up in her book, the article “The Ways We Lie,” by Stephanie Ericsson has a list of …show more content…
In context of this situation, Walls cannot help anything, but to believe that Rex can stop his drinking habit because of his promise to her as her tenth birthday present. People start to believe on what they desire desperately to be happened. Same as Walls’s situation, she has to believe that her father will make it happens. She just ignores on what others say, and the fact that he has been drinking for a long time, so it would not be that easy for him to stop just because she asks him to. It will not lasted long, if he is not willing to open his mind to see what has damaged by his alcoholic action.
Ericsson believes that dismissal is a kind of lie that can do as damage to a person as any other kind of lie. She explains “The root of many mental disorders can be traced back to dismissal of
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The Glass “Prison” The book The Glass Castle is about the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Jeannette who is the author of this memoir, emphasizes the idea that there are a lot of situations that happen in life where people make countless mistakes, but it is important to forgive them. In the book, Jeannette spends her life forgiving her parents for many mistakes. She copes with many obstacles created by her own parents. Her childhood life is spent constantly short on cash and food while the…

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