Essay On The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

In this excerpt from the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls creates a somber tone towards the town of Welch. Jeannette develops this tone through the use of repetition and word choice. The word choice throughout this excerpt is always heavy-hearted and gloomy. Jeannette's purpose is to portray the town in a horrid way to show that this was the turning point in her life when she lost her purity and began to see the world in reality. Jeannette Walls suggests repetition when she talks in this excerpt. She says “took it out on their wives, who took it out on their kids, who took it out on other kids”, this shows a chain-reaction. There are always hard times, especially in Welsh because it is a poor area with stealing, fighting and dreadful behavior. All families will fight and have problems but it takes trust, faith and …show more content…
Jeannette Walls advocates life when she says “it would all be over before you knew it”, this suggests that life is very short. We only have so much time on this earth, although some people get more time than others, no one can live forever. Jeannette, along with most of the people living in Welsh are wasting life away by fighting with people. When they could be doing better for themselves and trying to fix things with their family, they are fighting with each other. Although every family fights, a 24/7 fight is not healthy and it hard to fix if it continues for a long amount of time. Jeannette Walls demonstrates turn up people when she says “there were shiners, split lips, swollen cheekbones,bruised arms, scraped knuckles and bitten earlobes”. All the items listed in the quote suggested bad things. When she states this it seems as if she is using these words to describe the people of Welsh. Jeannette’s tone and description throughout this section of the book is always a depressing