The Glass Castle Identity Essay

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‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. In the book, Walls clearly sacrifice everything for each other through their dreadful times. This book is truly an inspirational book that will make a human realize, how much other people go through on a daily basis, and that they should be grateful for what they have. From the book, it’s faced with the question; how does facing challenges help us to mature and shape our identity? This question compels the book since it has multiple approaches to the book itself. Reading through the book, you’ll get to imagine the book through Jeannette Wall’s words, from her view of the story.
Throughout the book, Jeannette Walls and her siblings face tough, imaginable scenarios, yet they get through the tragic times and still have each other. In the book directed from, ‘Welch’ Chapter 3,(page 223, paragraph 4,) it states, “We’d take on extra work after school and put everything we earned into the piggy bank. Lori could take it to New York and use it to get established so that by the time I arrived, everything would be set.” By doing this together, it’s helping them together in facing challenges that will in the future show and help them in the future to grow. This shows that not only do the children want something more for …show more content…
She had stumbled upon financial problems for college. Yet unknowably, her parents came to New York as well and helped her when she needed it most. In ‘New York’ Chapter 4, (page 264, paragraph 6) it states, “he was carrying a large plastic garbage bag and had a small brown bag tucked under his arm. I assumed it was a bottle of booze, but then he opened the paper bag and turned it upside down. Hundreds of dollar bills-ones, fives, tens, twenties, all wrinkled and worn-spilled into my lap.” This family will always support each other in their hardest times and celebrate the better of
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