The Glass Castle Essay Topics

Like most book lovers, the movie or film that is produced in its place never feels quite satisfying. As a reader we create our own standards and set in motion our own views of the book, so seeing it from another creators perspective may not always fit how we would like. The film The Glass Castle which was created by screenwriters Destin Daniel Cretton, and Andrew Lanham was released on August 11, 2017 to allow a visual representation to the fans, but did it truly represent the book. The movie had almost absolutely no ties or connection/input from Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle Film left a huge portion of emotion, and characterization behind which leaves me to ask is this truly a film covering The Glass Castle.
In Jeannette Walls memoir, she really covers her parents in a way thats shows what many people believe to be poor parenting and the film really focuses on this aspect not showing how well Rex and Rosemary Walls did with raising their children. Rex and Rosemary Walls may not have been the best parents however they were able to turn their children into well-educated adults. “… but you can’t cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is ‘If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim…” (66). Although

they present is scene in the movie, this scene is still underrepresented.
The Representation of Rex Walls is also horribly portrayed in the film.

Rex Walls was portrayed as a drunk, low-life, somewhat imaginative person. But when we refer to and read the book we are shown how much Rex would do for his family. Rex is almost never shown to have a job or working to produce for the family. According to the memoir, Rex had worked many jobs. Every time the Walls family had moved somewhere, Rex had took it upon himself to find work, whether it was working in the barite mine, in battle mountain where the family got to live in the company housing. Or when Rex was searching the mountains for gold, any way Rex still provided for the family and is not just as portrayed in the

film.
Like all book lovers, there is passion for reading and the enjoyment. But when a book is turned into a film, the question is, will the movie do the book justice and satisfy the readers expectation. The film version of the Glass Castle was a let down of how the book should have been portrayed. There was a lack of characterization and left out parts of how the memoir was really meant. I would not recommend that this film be shown in class, due to seeming like a whole different storyline.