Jeannette Walls takes you on a journey through her youth in this reckless and exciting memoir. Walls lets you experience the poverty and rough times she survived as a young child and shares how she turned her life around and made something of herself. Through the eyes of her child self you see the world she grew up in, and grow with her as she matures into the world and changes the course of her life to save her from the desperate poverty she grew up in.
Being born into a poor family almost assures that you will live your life in poverty. As we see with Jeannette she didn't turn her life around until she left her family to create a life for herself. But the reality is, the chances of overcoming poverty when you come from a poor family are very slim. Having no support, no parents that can support you and in most cases relatives that are also poor, means that you have to work to get out of poverty. You have to do well in school, get into a good college and hopefully get a job that can support you, but good education, the opportunities that you need to get out of poverty, aren't available to the poor. So its like this endless loop that's inescapable. Being born into a poor family puts you at a disadvantage that you had no control over, so how is that fair, and how are kids supposed to strive for the american dream if they're stuck in the labyrinth of pove
Being born into a poor family almost assures that you will live your life in poverty. As we see with Jeannette she didn't turn her life around until she left her family to create a life for herself. But the reality is, the chances of overcoming poverty when you come from a poor family are very slim. Having no support, no parents that can support you and in most cases relatives that are also poor, means that you have to work to get out of poverty. You have to do well in school, get into a good college and hopefully get a job that can support you, but good education, the opportunities that you need to get out of poverty, aren't available to the poor. So its like this endless loop that's inescapable. Being born into a poor family puts you at a disadvantage that you had no control over, so how is that fair, and how are kids supposed to strive for the american dream if they're stuck in the labyrinth of pove