Kayla's Reflection on Literary Analysis 2

Informal, online, or multimedia sources

I used a picture on a blog that I had found that talked about the different settings and the impact that had on the Walls family. The picture was of the night sky in the desert. This blog was what initially made me think of going with ecocriticism. I also read an article called “Love, Somehow, Shines Through the Glass Castle”. This helped me realize the connection between familial connection and how it was affected by the outside scenarios. They helped me begin the paper and start my ideas so I could develop them further. 

Literary theory

Ecocriticism turned out to be the perfect theory to use with this book, but I never would have realized it without my pre-writing. It was fairly easy to blend into each section of the formal analysis. I feel I effectively discussed the novel and applied this theory well in talking about the desert, the mountains, and the city and each places’ effect on the Walls’ family relationships.

Writing process

The pre-writing has been helping my writing process much more than I expected. It helps me not to procrastinate and to get all my thoughts and ideas in order before I begin writing the paper instead of figuring it out as I go along. I still need to strengthen my deepening of my ideas and opinions on the topics but I feel like I effectively applied ecocriticism to the paper.