Jeannette Walls Motifs In The Glass Castle

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Many days spent on planning. Decided on the route. Choose sites to view. Got everything packed. Choose hotels to stay. Everything planned and ready to go. But when it comes to the Walls family, they improvise on every situation they encounter and teach the kids that each one can be seen as an “adventure”. Throughout the Glass Castle, “the adventures” they go on can be seen as a motif while they are in the desert, Welch, and New York. The motif that comes from the adventures is that each one is an escape from the terrible situation they are in or to see each one as an exciting and positive moment. As the family goes through the desert, they had many adventures that they all considered would be fun, thrilling, but also frightening. When they …show more content…
As Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen arrive in New York, one by one, each talk about they love it in New York and are excited for their futures. Like when Jeannette arrives, she says “ My heart started to race, and my palms grew damp”(Walls p245). This tells us that she is very nervous, but excited for what is to come. Since she usually acted like this on an adventure and it is a journey she travelled by herself and is trying to change herself, anyone can assume that this is one of her greatest adventures. As each child of the Wall’s family reaches New York, the journey they took and the journeys they will take while in New York can be seen as one of the greatest adventures that they took. Throughout The Glass Castle, you can a motif from the use of the word adventure. It can be seen as an excuse from the parents to keep their children distracted, but to the children each adventure they took is seen as the best or worst moments of their lives. That just by using one word they were able to keep faith in one another and to get past each terrible counter that the family faced. Some families might use the same idea, where they use a certain word, phrase, or even an action to keep a family's faith together and have the trust in one another to stay strong,
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