In the book The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, pulls you into the book with the imagery of the places the Walls family went too. She describes many things with details that make you seem like you're there witnessing the things happening right there next to the Walls family. The use of imagery makes you seem like a part of the Walls family and lets you join into their adventures through the happy and the bad times during their life. She makes you experience the difficulties of their life and the pain they had to endure throughout their childhood. She gives background details about the people living around them to know what it was like to be living at that place. “We fought a lot in Welch. Not just to fend off our enemies but to fit in. Maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch; maybe it was because of all the bloody battles over unionizing the mines; maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods and they came home and took it out on their wives, who took it out on their kids, who took it out on other kids”(164). This gives you a brief look at what usually happens in the city of Welch. The words she uses makes you see the image right in front of you. “ This rat was not just eating the sugar. He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table” (155). She brought us back into her past through words.
-Arielle Louie
-Arielle Louie