Author’s voice is the individual style in which an author writes his or her works. Author’s voice has been prevalent throughout literature. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls develops her own voice trough her writing. Within several significant events, she uses diction, syntax, figurative language, point of view, and many other styles of writing to portray what happened to the reader. At the beginning of the story, Walls starts off the memoir with an extremely significant event. As she is riding in a taxi to a party, she sees something rather unsettling. She says, “...I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster” (3). Through the use of first person point of view, Walls is able to give the reader a front row seat in the
