Book Analysis

In her memoir, Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls shares with her readers an unusual story of her childhood. She grew up in the environment extremely poor and violent, yet emotionally and intellectually stimulating. She lived in constant physical deprivations—and yet she was exposed to the riches of the world and of the mind that average children have no access to.
In your essay, take a position on what her childhood was like and focus on this point (this will be your thesis). State clearly if you think of it as a childhood of abuse and neglect or of unique rewarding experiences OR express your ambivalence and ambiguity and elaborate on your judgment with the examples from the book.