The Glass Castle: Personal Response

Blog #5: Personal Review
Regardless of the reoccurring hardships in their lives, the Walls kids always found ways to escape them. Even if it was only for a couple of hours, those hours would be what the kids looked forward to and what they remembered until their next break from their reality. The fact that all of the children stuck together when they had no one else to lean on but each other was quite refreshing because of the rarity of those sibling relationships. I realize as a memoir of a life, the author should not lie, but I loved the uncontested honesty of her story. Jeannette Walls did not hold anything back. She had something to say and did not hold back.
I also enjoyed her delivery; the way the book was separated into sections of her life, almost as though to separate the different levels of difficulty of their lives. For instance, the climax, or the middle of the book, would have been the most challenging to get through because all the children were of somewhat adolescent age and needed specific things to survive. And the excerpt at the beginning of the book, in a way foreshadowed an outcome for her mother gave the reader a hint as to what life would turn out to be.
However, I disliked that Maureen was often left out of many of the plans or conversations that the three older siblings had. I suppose that because of the significant age difference between Brian and Maureen, her input would not benefit the conversation, as well as, she might not have been able to understand many conversations.