Someone for the looks had a somewhat chaotic childhood. This week we went to the library to pick out memoirs, I chose The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. The truth is, I had no idea of what this book was about until I got home and started reading it. My sincere opinion: I like it. In the first eighteen pages, the author was able to grab my attention.
The book started with transition of times. One minute Walls is narrating her adulthood separated from her family and the next she is telling us her childhood. One thing I can say for sure, her life changed through the years. As a little girl she lived in different and worst conditions, "we were living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town whose name I never knew"(9). Not to judge, but once someone says she lived in a trailer you can imply that the person lived under bad circumstances. But when talking about adulthood her lifestyle changed, not that she ever talked about her economic conditions but she did tell a taxi driver, "take me home to Park Avenue"(3). In my personal perspective Park is a total upgrade from a trailer park in Arizona. The way the writer transitions from this to eras of her life got me intrigued into keep on reading.
Main event in her childhood (for now) = Chaotic
Fire accident.
Yes, it happend. Once again a character in my book was in an accident involving fire, at least this time there was not as much time spent in the hospital just "about six weeks"(14). The accident was extremely tragic lol jk she was just cooking a hot dog. If only I consider it odd, because well she was three years old and cooking. The burn was extremely serious, she had skin grafts, just like Brent Runyon in The Burn Journals. In her stay in the hospital she and Brent went through similar procedures. One could consider this two accident extremely similar, and here are some reasons why: burned at home, NOT a natural disaster, and both were burnt at relatively young age. But wait there is one difference. Brent's accident was a suicidal attempt, nevertheless they are very similar.
For some reason she enjoyed the stay at the hospital, she even found the food they offered her there "delicious," which in my opinion means she probably didn't exactly eat gourmet back in her trailer park. Makes me believe that Walls had a rough childhood. She obviously lived in bad conditions if, "smell of Vitalis, whiskey, and cigarette smoke" reminds her of home (14). Other factors the makes me believe this, is how all her family was prone to accidents or at least her siblings. I have read a small amount of the book and there has already been three accidents mentioned counting her burn. While she was in the hospital her brother Brian falled of the couch and cracked his head but according to her dad "one kid in the hospital...is enough"(13). Her dad also seemed to have a strong point of view. When telling the anecdote of how her sister was stung by a poisonous scorpion. Her dad recalls how she was cured by a brown paste a Navajo gave her. He blames his wife and says that instead of taking Jeanette to the doctors but in his words, "heads-up-their-asses-med-school-quacks" she should have taken her to a Navajo doctor to cure her.
For some reason she enjoyed the stay at the hospital, she even found the food they offered her there "delicious," which in my opinion means she probably didn't exactly eat gourmet back in her trailer park. Makes me believe that Walls had a rough childhood. She obviously lived in bad conditions if, "smell of Vitalis, whiskey, and cigarette smoke" reminds her of home (14). Other factors the makes me believe this, is how all her family was prone to accidents or at least her siblings. I have read a small amount of the book and there has already been three accidents mentioned counting her burn. While she was in the hospital her brother Brian falled of the couch and cracked his head but according to her dad "one kid in the hospital...is enough"(13). Her dad also seemed to have a strong point of view. When telling the anecdote of how her sister was stung by a poisonous scorpion. Her dad recalls how she was cured by a brown paste a Navajo gave her. He blames his wife and says that instead of taking Jeanette to the doctors but in his words, "heads-up-their-asses-med-school-quacks" she should have taken her to a Navajo doctor to cure her.
Her family = unstable
Her childhood = chaotic
First impressions of the book = great
First impressions of the book = great
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