“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have everything had their secrets. » The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a young girl and her dysfunctional life. Jeannette and her family live a very difficult life, constantly moving to a new place. However, along the way, Jeannette decides that she wants to escape her family and move to New York. Throughout her life, she and her sister work to move to New York to improve their lives. The Glass Castle will become a classic because it recounts difficult moments in life, contains lessons from parents and allows the reader to be inspired by Jeannette's escape plan. “We were always sledding, usually in the middle of the night. » (Walls 19) Jeannette and her family were on the run from the law. They would never pay the bills on time and would constantly be forced to leave whenever someone expected money from the Walls family. The first time they did the skedaddle was when Jeannette was three years old. She was cooking hot dogs herself and was badly burned. Her parents took her to the hospital and she was there six weeks before the doctor started asking her for money. One night, Rex Walls, her father, came to pick her up and ran away. Another difficult period in life was when Jeanette's mother suffered a miscarriage. "Mom never seemed upset about Marry Charlene's death...Dad, however, didn't want to talk about Mary Charlene." (Walls 28) The family never talks about Mary Charlene but Jeannette thinks that's why her father has a drinking problem. “While we were arguing, they called me poor, ugly and dirty, and it was hard to argue at that point. » (Walls 140) Later, when the family moves to 93 Little Hobart Street, Jeannette is bullied because she can... middle of paper... finally practice at the end. “What if they don’t?” It just means you haven't reached the end yet. (Walls 259) Jeannette began to lose faith in her parents after they could no longer provide for her and vowed that she would build a better life for herself. “I swore to myself that her life would never be like Mom's…” (Walls 208) Jeannette has the idea of ​​moving to New York to escape her parents and pursue her dream of becoming a journalist. She decides that her older sister, Lori, will have to run away with her, because Jeannette would never leave Lori alone with her parents. The next day, Jeannette buys a piggy bank to start a “escape fund”. To earn money, Lori would draw and paint posters for children at school and sell them for fifty dollars. Jeannette looked after the children and did the other children's homework. She earned a dollar per assignment and kept a dollar an hour..