Memory is like a movie that gets played over and over in your head, until the movie becomes distorted. Jeanette told the Walls’ story starting when she was 3 years old and continuing through her adult life. Therefore her memoir is very inaccurate. No one remembers everything that happened in their childhood, especially not vivid enough to write a book about it. The Walls’ memoir is most likely very inaccurate. Typically people only remember the big things in life like vacations, relationships, jobs, and either very good or very bad things that happened in their lives. They don’t usually remember every single detail from a previous relationship or car accident that they were in. The details and dialogue in, The Glass Castle, is a different story. Most likely the details are different than what actually happened because Jeanette was so young and couldn’t fully remember what happened. All she knows is stories that her parents or siblings told her, and those stories could have easily affected her view of things. There is no way that Jeanette or …show more content…
Unless `someone documents all of the events that take place while they happen, then it can stay nonfiction. The memoir, Love and Consequences, by Margaret B. Jones, turned out to be completely fake. The memoir told a story of a girl, Margaret, who was put in foster care at a young age and grew up in one of the toughest LA neighborhoods. It turns out that she grew up going to a private school and lived a good life, so her memoir was completely made up, that’s why it is hard to distinguish between good and bad memoirs (Lyons). That memoir was fiction to begin with, but the author wanted it to sell well, making it a nonfiction memoir seemed like the thing to do. American society today tends see like nonfiction movies and books because they become inspired by them. They memoirs give them hope that maybe someday their lives will change for the