Adversity In The Glass Castle

The Struggle Of Building

Adversity means difficulties or misfortune. When someone's dealing with things or a situation turns out to go against them, they face adversity. Adversity is something someone come across in life, it's like a part of a person. Decisions and actions are influenced by a lot of things. Conflicts influence all kinds of actions and decisions depending on the person. In the book, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls there were many conflicts throughout the book, and the people in the situations made different decisions and actions depending on how they were involved in the conflict. The title of the book itself is a metaphor that signifies false promises and hopes. The author uses Mary literary devices to show adversity. The person that stood out the most on how he dealt with things was Rex Walls, since he’s the one who took different actions and decisions when a problem came their way. Jeannette Walls uses a lot of literary devices to show adversity of building a family and how people’s actions and decisions depend on the conflict. First, the author uses many literary devices such as personification to get a point across to the reader. Jeannette states “then the flames leaped up, reaching my

Conflicts influence someone’s actions and decisions because they can control whether to make it bigger or make it better. In this case, Rex made some decisions to make things have a good turnout instead of bad. Jeannette uses many literary devices to tell this book, and to introduce adversity. There were many other conflicts in the book that turned out bad, because of the decisions that were made. Bravery is something Jeannette and her family have, because of everything they have dealt with and been through. Adversity popped up often in the book, Jeannette made people realize it by her literary