TOW #4- IRB- The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle is a memoir about the unusual life of the author, Jeannette Walls and the troubles her family went through while she was younger. Even through the dysfunctional circumstance Jeannette and her siblings always found the light in the tunnel and did not let their past determine their future. The author Jeannette Walls is an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. The memoir The Glass Castle stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks. The purpose of Walls's memoir was to not only inform other of her childhood but to encourage other to follow their dreams and not let their past's define them.Her main audience I believe is people who are trying to find inspiration in their lives.The rhetoric term most utilized by Walls thus far is Imagery. In The Glass Castle, the author was very descriptive while explaining very emotional parts of her story. These being of how her parents once neglected to save her after she fell out of their family car and when her family would spend many nights in the Arizona desert while trying to find another place to live. She used this to to successfully pull the reader in so that they could more easily relate to the hardships her family had been through. I believe that Walls was successful in using Imagery to describe her story. It better connected with her audience and adds the much needed shock value to better illustrate her traumatic childhood. Overall I am very much liking The Glass Castle and I am very glad that I chose this to be my Independent Reading Book.