Emily As A Writer Analysis

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Emily has always referred to herself as being "the writer".This identity or stamp came to be when she began to write about thirty books, which were about five pages long with one sentence and one picture on each page at the age of five. Throughout Emily's childhood she has always questioned whether her purpose in life was to be a writer. She began to doubt herself even the more when she saw her classmates writing stories with no struggle, because she was a slow writer. Emily used to blame her entire writer complex on whoever would tell her that she was a writer. She believed that if that person hadn't of channeled her thoughts about being born a writer she wouldn't expect great literacy things from herself and her life would be easier. Until

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