“I wanted to let the world know that no one has 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 hard life, constantly leaving to go to new places. 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 includes difficult moments in life, contains lessons taught by parents, and allows the reader to draw inspiration from Jeannette's escape plan. “We were always throwing tantrums, usually in the middle of the night.” (Walls 19) Jeannette and her family were fleeing from the law. They would never pay their bills on time and would be forced to leave as soon as anyone expected money from the Walls family. The first time they did the “skedaddle” was when Jeannette was three years old. She was making hot dogs by herself and was seriously burned. Her parents took her to hospital and she stayed there for six weeks before the doctor started asking her for money. One night, Rex Walls, her father, picked her up and ran away. Another difficult moment in life was when Jeanette's mother had a miscarriage. "Mother never seemed upset by Marry Charlene's death... Father, however, didn't talk about Mary Charlene." (Walls 28) The family never talks about Mary Charlene but Jeannette believes this is why her father has a drinking problem. “As we argued, they called me poor, ugly and dirty, and it was hard to argue at this point.” (Walls 140) Later, when the family moves to 93 Little Hobart Street, Jeannette is bullied because she... middle of paper... finally manages to train. “What if they don't?” This simply means that 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 to make 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 an "escape fund". To make money, Lori would draw and paint posters for children at school and sell them for a dollar fifty. Jeannette babysat and did homework for the other children. She earned a dollar per assignment and babysat for a dollar an hour.