Writer's Duty
Osvaldo Barragan
October 12, 2015
On December 10, 1950, William Faulkner delivered his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. Faulkner delivered the "writer's duty" for all the future writers to write only from the truth of the heart. His concern was for the young writers. He believed that a good writer has to avoid writing nonsense. He felt concerned about the new authors who expressed their writing to the young Americans with stories that talked "not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity of compassion." Faulkner's theory states that in order to create good writing, the author's view on life must be reflected within their …show more content…
Dillard's imagination creates depth, reminding the reader of themselves. An American Childhood is a vivid memoir of Annie Dillard's childhood that takes place in Pittsburgh in the early 1950s. Dillard finds herself being part of this world. Her memoir is realistic and truthful and allows the reader to grow with her. Imagination and fantasies allow her to see other things that are nothing compare to reality. Annie Dillard's purpose of An American Childhood is to convey the reader of imagination blinding her from …show more content…
Her surroundings make her imagination terrify her. Her imagination led her to imagine a ghost that would come into her room every night. She expresses her interior life as "a mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.(Page. 310)" Her imagination prevented her from seeing reality. After realizing that the monster that came into her bedroom was the light reflected from the cars that drove down her street, she finally realized that the monster was part of her imagination. Imaginations don't explain why things happen, it allows for things to happen without reasoning until one looks deeper into the outer world. This difficult experience puts Dillard in a situation that most children go through. Her descriptions are so realistic and truthful, that it makes the reader remember their fears as a child which were caused by their imagination. It isn't until one grows up and realizes that those imaginations are just fantasies, and starts looking out to the outer world where one finds reality. Dillard shows her courage in finding out where this "monster" is coming from. This pure, unaltered type of writing captures the young human spirit base elements and allows the readers to grow and learn with
Osvaldo Barragan
October 12, 2015
On December 10, 1950, William Faulkner delivered his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. Faulkner delivered the "writer's duty" for all the future writers to write only from the truth of the heart. His concern was for the young writers. He believed that a good writer has to avoid writing nonsense. He felt concerned about the new authors who expressed their writing to the young Americans with stories that talked "not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity of compassion." Faulkner's theory states that in order to create good writing, the author's view on life must be reflected within their …show more content…
Dillard's imagination creates depth, reminding the reader of themselves. An American Childhood is a vivid memoir of Annie Dillard's childhood that takes place in Pittsburgh in the early 1950s. Dillard finds herself being part of this world. Her memoir is realistic and truthful and allows the reader to grow with her. Imagination and fantasies allow her to see other things that are nothing compare to reality. Annie Dillard's purpose of An American Childhood is to convey the reader of imagination blinding her from …show more content…
Her surroundings make her imagination terrify her. Her imagination led her to imagine a ghost that would come into her room every night. She expresses her interior life as "a mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.(Page. 310)" Her imagination prevented her from seeing reality. After realizing that the monster that came into her bedroom was the light reflected from the cars that drove down her street, she finally realized that the monster was part of her imagination. Imaginations don't explain why things happen, it allows for things to happen without reasoning until one looks deeper into the outer world. This difficult experience puts Dillard in a situation that most children go through. Her descriptions are so realistic and truthful, that it makes the reader remember their fears as a child which were caused by their imagination. It isn't until one grows up and realizes that those imaginations are just fantasies, and starts looking out to the outer world where one finds reality. Dillard shows her courage in finding out where this "monster" is coming from. This pure, unaltered type of writing captures the young human spirit base elements and allows the readers to grow and learn with