Glass Castle Essay
For your response to the book The Glass Castle, choose one of the following prompts to craft a thesis-based essay. The goal of this essay is to show an analysis of some aspect of the book. Analysis means to break something down and comment on the underlying pieces. You must apply critical thinking to this essay. Get under the surface to the heart of what is really going on in this book. It is more than Rex is a drunk and the Walls family is poor. That is surface. We all know that. Under the surface is looking at Rex’s alcoholism as, potentially, the key factor to their dysfunctional life. You must pull things from the book. Generalities are not ok. If you are making a point, you have to point to specific parts in the book that you believe support this idea.
You should quote the book and, also, show that you understand that most of this book operates in subtext what isn’t said but can be presumed from the text.
The paper should be 6-8 pages and follow MLA or APA format. This essay must have a work cited page that lists, at a minimum, the book. All quotes and specific references to scenes that you take from the book must be cited in your essay using parenthetical citations.
The ideas must connect, the introductory paragraph(s) must contain your thesis and prepare the reader for the rest of the paper, your language choice must be crisp, and your paragraphs need to follow one idea throughout.
Craft a paper that will make your audience think in an interesting and new way about The Glass Castle.
1. Are there advantages to growing up as the Walls children did? What are they? Could the advantages ever outweigh the more horrific aspects of their life?
2. Choose the theme/issue that you believe best sums up the meaning of The Glass Castle. Point to it in the book and build the case for its importance.
3. Discuss Rex’s relationship with his children. Was he a loving father or a master manipulator?
4. How does Jeanette’s use of a maturing voice contribute to or take away from the book? Think about how the book would be different if the adult voice was present from the beginning.
5. Write a book review for The Glass Castle. This is not the same as a book report. A book review takes a stance on the book (good or bad). A book report is a summary of what happened. Don’t do this!
6. Pick a character and do a character analysis where you propose something about the character’s personality that wasn’t upfront in the book.
7. Tell me something that you really believe about the nature of what this book really means.
100 points
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