The Glass Castle - Blog 1

Jeanette Walls is an established news writer (later in the book she talks about that pull).  She writes "a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. What the reporter wrote influenced what people thought about and talked about the next day; he knew what was really going on. I decided I wanted to be one of the people who knew what was really going on" (Walls 204).

With reference to one or two quotations from this section of her memoir (pages 1-90), think of reasons why you think Walls decided to become a news writer?