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March 29, 2008
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Why People Write ?
People write for many reasons. They write to educate, , and to entertain to express
their feelings of emotions of joy or sadness, also to preserve history
In Maya Angelou’s story “Graduation” in Fields of Reading she teaches us about
racism in the south in the 1940’s.
Angelou writes about how schools in the south were segregated. Black students
were deprived of resources to enable students to learn. While schools were endowed with
all the resources needed for a prominent education.
They were going to have the newest
microscopes and chemistry equipment
for their laboratory.1
Not only does Maya Angelou write about lack of resources in the black schools
she also writes that even after the students graduated that they merely going to be
carpenter, athletes and entertainers.
…and our boys ( the girls weren’t even
on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses
and Joe Louises.2
Maya Angelou is not the only writer who wrote to educate her readers. Prince
Modupe who wrote The Royal African, educated people about his culture, his religion
and how power among his people was passed down through women.
Prince Modupe tells us about how his courage was tested by the elders by fighting
with leopards. this is the way a youths courage was tested by the elders of the
community.
I am that youth whose courage was
tested in hand to hand combat with
a leopard.3
Prince Modupe also talks about how everything is passed down through the
women from generation to generation. These things consisting of property, rights, and
even the succession to the throne.
.Our nations system was matriarchal.
Grandfather sat the throne because there
was no female successor for the office in
his mother’s family…descended through
women.4
Another writer who writes to educate is Martin Luther King . He writes about
racism and about non-violence in the United States in the 1960’s. King speaks of
liberalism and neo-orthodoxy.
King says that these two theories are inadequate. Man needs a reason as much as \
he needs God. Liberalism was too sentimental concerning human nature and that it leaned
toward a false idealism. On the other hand he says that neo-orthodoxy fell as the mood of
anti-rationalism and semi-fundamentalism , ( stressing a narrow biblicism).
While I saw neo-orthodoxy as a helpful
corrective for a sentimental liberalism,…
If liberalism was too optimistic…
neo-orthodoxy was too pessimistic. 5
People also write to entertain, whether it be a funny quote or a full comedy to
make people laugh or to keep people interested to continue reading.
One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a great
example of people writing to entertain. In this story he talks about a person by the name
of Arcadio Buendia and a gypsy by the name of Malquiades. Buendia is stated to be not
trustworthy of gypsies.
But Jose Arcadio Buendia, at that time
Did not believe in the honesty of gypsies.6
In One Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez writes about a man who practically
gives up everything he owns to invent things from inventions from the gypsies in which
Buendia did not trust.
Not only do authors write to entertain and to educate they also write to express
feelings of pain or joy. Anne Frank in her diary tells us about her struggls and pains
during the Holocaust. Not only do we know that we also feel for the struggle in living in
an attic with the rest of her family. Anne Franks also talks about having no friends and
the only real friend that she had was a diary, one of the reasons for this is because she
says that paper was patient
Paper has more patience than people.7
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