On December 10, 1950, in Stockholm, Sweden, one of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, William Faulkner, gave his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. If you read between the lines of this acceptance speech, you can detect a certain message – more of a cry or a plea – aimed directly at adolescent authors and writers, and that message is to be the voice of your generation; write about things with real importance. This also means that authors should include heart, soul, spirit, and raw, truthful emotions in their writing. “Love, honor, pity, pride, compassion and sacrifice” (Faulkner) should all be embraced frequently – it is the authors' duty to do so. If these young and adolescent authors ignore this message and duty, literature's already endangered status will continue to decline until its unfortunate extinction. . She has more than fulfilled her duty as a writer. His memoir The Glass Castle is one of the most honest, raw, emotional, and heart-filled pieces of literature to ever grace humanity. In this memoir, Walls uses many different rhetorical strategies to fulfill her duty as an author and embrace Faulkner's message. Throughout the book, every range of emotions can be felt by the reader, largely due to Walls' expert use of rhetorical strategies. These rhetorical strategies paint such vivid images that the reader can feel the sacrifice, mercy, and love of Walls' story as if they were alongside Jeannette herself. Throughout the memoir, multiple self-sacrificing actions can be found, and these examples are frequent...... middle of paper ......d to share their deepest and most private moments with members of the audience, and this in turn will create a genuine and quality story. When asked whether Jeannette Walls fulfilled the task entrusted to her by William Faulkner, one should not even hesitate to answer. In The Glass Castle, Walls shares some of the most personal and emotional moments of his life, and they clearly include the essential characteristics of writing as defined by Faulkner. With Walls' expert use of rhetorical strategy, he makes the reader see, hear, feel, and feel the emotion as if it were occurring firsthand. So, to conclude, Jeannette Walls has certainly lived up to Faulkner's expectations as a writer by creating a memoir full of superb rhetorical strategies that accurately translates the events of Walls' life for readers in great detail..