The Glass Castle

Once in New York, Lori helped Jeannette get enrolled in an internship at The Phoenix, a weekly newspaper that was just a tad rundown. Jeannette had the experience of working on her school newspaper, The Maroon Wave. Her experience at her highschool newsgroup gave her an understanding of what the world was really like because the only insight she ever got about the world was biased ideas from her mother and father. The internship soon became a full-time reporter job and Jeannette had to to keep up with the news. She descibes this as the happiest time of her life because of the constant flow of her 90 hours of work a week. Because of her amazing experience at The Phoenix, when she was asked if she ever thought about going to college by the manager, she responded by comparing herself to the college graduates had the same job as her. First time I read this, I thought that after everything she has been though, she would strive to rise in whatever she was doing. The second time I read this, I realized that Jeannette was self-supporting and had finally gotten to a stable state in her life. With this sense of security, she feels safe and content with her life, but she does strive for more as she applies for college. Jeannette seems like the type of person who doesn't know when to give up, and that is what makes her succeed in what she does.