Literary Techniques In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

In Jeannette Walls novel The Glass Castle Jeannette successfully and effectively accomplishes her purpose to tell people how she grew up and her life story with all of its new twists and turns life throws at her but to also encourage people to achieve their dreams and not have the past holding you back from getting them. Jeannette utilizes this purpose by using inspiration she choose this method because she wanted to not only inform about herself but inspire others that their past does not define them. Now she does this to suggest to her audience that anyone can follow their dreams and be successful. Jeannette Walls uses inspiration to let people know how one’s past is a part of them but doesn’t necessarily define them. Walls starts out the novel in New York City living on Park Av. where some of the richest people in the world live and she is riding to a event in a cab and she looks over at a dumpster and sees her mom going through the trash for it says “I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw