In Jeannette Walls’ book The Glass Castle, she exhibits not only extremely skilled and knowledgeable writing, but offers a specific and thorough example of the importance of tone in literature. The Glass Castle illustrates this idea through the varying depictions of the dad throughout the beginning, middle, and end. Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle depicts a vivid insight into her life growing up as an abuse victim, and child of an alcoholic. Despite being raised as the second oldest of four children by her abusive parents Rex and Rosemary, Jeannette becomes determined to be successful in school and in life in general. In highschool, she join sher school’s newspaper and begins to obtain a genuine love and appreciation for both writing and reporting. Around the age of 17, Jeannette and her older sister Lori decide that they need to move out of their toxic household and ultimately decide the best place for them to live would be New York. As soon as Lori settles into her new home and Jeannette graduates from high school, she moves in with Lori. Not too long after, their younger brother Brian follows suit
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He told me we were going to check out Rex Walls-style...Dad hurried down the hall with me in his arms. A nurse yelled for us to stop, but Dad broke into a run. He pushed open an emergency-exit door and sprinted down the stairs and out to the street… “You don’t have to worry anymore, baby,” Dad said, “You’re safe now.” (14).
This direct quote shows an almost ‘heroic’ view of the dad through the way the author expresses his foul deed. Rex was also shown under a positive light through the author’s repeated mentioning of the father’s intelligence. For instance, Jeannette states that everyone says that, “[her] dad was a genius. He could build or fix anything” (22). She then goes on to give examples, such as the time he used a macaroni noodle to insulate electrical
He told me we were going to check out Rex Walls-style...Dad hurried down the hall with me in his arms. A nurse yelled for us to stop, but Dad broke into a run. He pushed open an emergency-exit door and sprinted down the stairs and out to the street… “You don’t have to worry anymore, baby,” Dad said, “You’re safe now.” (14).
This direct quote shows an almost ‘heroic’ view of the dad through the way the author expresses his foul deed. Rex was also shown under a positive light through the author’s repeated mentioning of the father’s intelligence. For instance, Jeannette states that everyone says that, “[her] dad was a genius. He could build or fix anything” (22). She then goes on to give examples, such as the time he used a macaroni noodle to insulate electrical