Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Glass Castle


Jeannette Walls grew up with three siblings, an imaginative intelligent father when sober and a absent father when drunk, a mentally-spazzy mother when pressured and an artist when she dreamed of a better life. Childhood took them all over the west: living in one spots no longer then a couple weeks, and poverty constantly following them everywhere.

Once the money ran out for good, the family settled in Welch, West Virginia, where Jeannette’s fathers haunted family lived. Welch became the first place the Walls family did not leave after a couple of weeks of residing there. However, Welch was not good to the children for a long time. For years the parents gradually started to neglect their children, and the children started surviving on their own. Finally, when they started coming of age, and only then, did the children escape Welch and it’s horrors to New York. With the parents behind them, for now, they we’re able to grow and make something of their dreams!

The Glass Castle will remain an affecting and effectible read for years to come. Throughout the book Jeannette Walls, the author, remains honest and blunt about her childhood and rough experiences that protruded from it. Her heart expresses itself boldly in ink and words. The emotion Walls pulls out of the closet in your soul is masterfully done. The time you put in and the thoughts you pull out from this book will be to your avail. The things you will be reminded of or have never thought of will surface. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be furious, you’ll be relieved. The Glass Castle is one of a kind that deserves your focus.

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