short essay

Do you need loving supportive parents that provide safety, financial security and emotional support in order to grow up to be a healthy, happy individual.

Children with an unstable home growing up will grow up to be a successful individual if they choose to be. Jeannette Walls author of The Glass Castle grew up in a home filled with irresponsible parents and broken dreams, yet she grew up to tell about it.

Jeannette Walls has shown us that a child from a broken home can rise to a star in the book The Glass Castle. In the book Jeannette Walls tells of her terrible and “adventurous” past, filled with ironies and forks in the road “a little drinking situation”(pg. 23) which meant that her father was a jobless drunk most of the time. Yet she pulled through the father’s bull and rose up. Many forks showed in her adventure like “Hun I need some money”(209) when she knew she should not give the money to the father but yet she did.   When a woman like this grows to a respected author from such a bad childhood then it true was shows you don’t need a good home as a child.

            Even Brian grew up to be a retired cop, Brian came from the same home  as Jeannette and grew to be a head sergeant in a police office. He came from the same home as Jeannette broken like in welch it truly was broken and braking “the ceiling of the bed room had collapsed, and Brian moved his bed to the porch” (pg. 249). This is not all that bad noticing the outdoors aren’t the same for the hole in the roof of the kitchen is large. But most importantly When Brian was attacked by his grandmother “Grabbing at the crouch of his pants, squeezing and kneading while mumbling to herself” (pg 146). Even through all the hell that the parents and the grandparents put him through he still found a way to get free, “Whens the soonest I can come” (pg. 249) was all his response was the question of him going home. So he did not need a stable home to grow up to be successful.

             The walls children have proven that children don’t need a stable home or protective parents.  Neither parent in the book The Glass Castle really showed any love toward the children “Brian’s a man he can take it” (pg. 148) was the only response to the story of the grandmother’s attack. The Walls family never had money and lived in shambles of homes and almost always went without food. Yet they had the charisma to keep going and the lust to get out of their shambles of homes.