New Memoir

I choose the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. While I believe that some memoirs stretch the fact, Jeannette Walls' story seems like it was told truthfully. Although, as I was reading it, I wanted to think that the memoir was fiction. All the traveling, the running, the hardships, experienced by that family seems surreal. What really shocked me, was how Rex Walls was so serious about the smallest things, but stubborn and unwilling to face harder up comings. For instance I thought it was terrible when he took Quixote and threw him out the window. His cruelty to animals must have been emotionally disturbing as seen through the eyes of a child or adult. Reading this memoir, I felt upset when I was exposed to all the lies that Rex Walls spoon fed to his family. He was inconsiderate towards the safety of his family, but as I read further into the story, I believe that what he and his wife teach the children will help them very much in the future. Sure they do not attend school, but the parents teach the kids, math and science and have them read at an advanced level. Although the Walls' family seems like they are troubled, I believe this memoir will teach valuable lessons, while still attaining its true reality.