a stronly different idea
Lin, Zijie
English 96
Benjamin J Bacsierra
June 21st 2011
The Reason For Writing
What are the benefits that we can get from essay writing? There are so many things that we can get advantage of from writing an essay. Actually, it is not only a requirement in school to make your life hard but it also has some good benefits that will increase your personality development. Life as a writer says and questions a lot, but if I put myself and my own stories in the so called, “The Writing Life”, then I have to think of myself as a writer. I think of myself as being that creative being who takes everything that is handed to her, and twists it around and puts new character and meaning to it. For those three articles that we talked about in the class, those three authors have a stronly different ideas of writing. Writing, to me, is a journey of self-discovery.
Didion’s purpose is to shine light on the process of writing, its benefits and how it has helped her. In the essay, “Why I Write” by Joan Didion, she explains her writing as a coping mechanism and professes that the lack of the ability to grasp the abstract is a handicap. I was put off her smug attitude that the pictures in her head “tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you…what’s going on in the picture.” But with a closer read, setting aside my own fears on writing and my ineptitude with grammar, I realized what she was trying to get at was her connection to and comprehension of the world. Writing gives her the opportunity to express her thoughts, ideals, and emotions onto paper in an articulate way. Her “not being a thinker” shows that writers don’t have to be extremely intelligent or intellectual to be writer and it also makes writing more relatable.
Orwell’s Why I Write is an ingenious, thin collection of essays concerning his writing and political philosophies. Orwell implies that the nature of a writer and the drive to write reveal themselves at an early age: “I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts.” (Orwell P2) Orwell’s essays also contribute significantly, and the writer enjoys an honored place in the pantheon of essayists. Seen by some, though not all, as a clear-eyed teller of unpleasant truths.Apart from these fictions, however, Orwell’s literary production in the last decade of his life consisted of reviews, articles, and essays, which appeared in an ever-increasing assortment of periodicals and papers. Orwell’s essay “Why I Write” provides a pertinent example of the distortions possible when periodicals are ignored. Significantly, too, in the essay Orwell gazes not into the future from even the mid-1930’s, but into the past from the mid-1940’s. The essay is a review of an established career, not a manifesto for one just commenced.
Personally, I gain lots benefit from writing during my life. I love writing. Writing- whether my writing or someone else’s- allows me to escape my world and fall into others. Writing lets me see rich, thriving forest, craggy cliff seashores and ocean spray. Writing lets me smell the salt in the air or hear the crack of a twig as a foot steps on it. Writing lets me live the fear, feel the love, wipe away the tears and chuckle at the humor. It lets me meet people that I’ll never truly meet and delve inside their minds and souls like some fortuneteller picking truth from the mind. Writing gives me the chance to improve my writing skills in general. The aspect of writing in perfect spelling and grammar conditions will help me realize that I really deserve to learn how to properly write articles. Writing lets me interact with people I would otherwise never have a chance to meet. Whether that be due to the physical divide of distance, or the metaphysical divide of time after I pass on. And the beauty of the digital medium is that it can cross both of these divides with ease. It is a privilege to be able to share my thoughts and feelings in this way.
Writing is a beauty of love which can express ourselves’emotion through the paper. Writing defines what kind of person one is. Writing is the one most important thing to get better in everything. Writing creates crazy thoughts that need to get formed into some beautiful something.
