The book The Glass Castle is full of many different text structures. One text structure is included is heading titles. One example of this is “The Woman on The Street”. In this section, she gives information about her life as an adult and her family when she is older. Another example of this is “The Desert”. This section is about her life when she is young. It starts when she is three, living in Arizona and moving around a lot with her family. Another text structure used is a flashback. At the beginning of the book, Jeanette Walls is older and independent. She no longer believes everything her parents said and she is even ashamed of them. In the next part, The Desert, she is much less mature. “I was on fire. It’s my earliest memory. I was three years old, and we were living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town whose name I never knew. I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me. Pink was my favorite color.” In this section, she is much younger, therefore, it is a flashback. Jeannette Walls may have chosen to do this to show how much effect her parents’ actions had on her growing up.