The Glass Castle is a memoir, which is defined as a type of autobiographical account or reflection on one's past. Typically, a memoir imparts factual events while incorporating fictional elements of storytelling, and it seeks to capture highlights of or meaningful events in one's past, often serving a therapeutic function of sorts. A memoir commonly centers on a problem or focuses on a conflict and its resolution, and on the understanding of why and how the resolution is significant in the author's life. How is the memoir an appropriate choice for Walls' story? I have to write at least three paragraphs journal with quote and clear thesis statement.