Margaret Peterson Analysis

Every person who is living and who has lived has a story and a past that makes them the individual they are or were. For Margaret Peterson, her passion for reading began as a young adolescent. Margaret had grown up in an time where electronics and technology was up and coming. For entertainment and hobbies she would spend hours reading at home, in the car, and even on vacation. She lived in a densely populated area, that was not prevalent. Her father was a farmer, like most men in the community. She lived at home with 3 siblings, 2 brothers and one sister. Growing up on the farm she was exposed to animals more than anything. Her family had a pony named Ginger that her and all 3 of her siblings would sit on and ride around the farm. Job opportunities …show more content…
However, she knew and believed there was another side of life and opportunities besides what she was around and what her parents had chosen to do with their life.But for Margaret her passion of reading had inspired her to become an author and she did not want to be like the average student in her time that graduates high school and stays at home to work with their parents or go off to college to study and receive the same degree their parents did and come back to where they were as a child. Margaret knew that following her parents pathway would not be the way.. However, making the transition that she would decide to make would not be easy. She was just the small town girl that was known of in her town but to get out in a big city and a career and college you don't know anyone or have any connections would cause a huge amount of effort in getting what you want and would be fulfilled with moments of failure of not getting things where they should be. For many years she didn't know that being an author was a profession that she could acquire, but when she learned that it was she was fascinated and decided that's what she would someday …show more content…
While Margaret worked exceptionally as a newspaper reporter, she married her husband Doug, who also was interested in writing and shortly after they married, he was offered a job as a newspaper reporter, giving Margaret the chance to take time off to pursue writing her first book she would hope to publish working as a newspaper reporter when she married her husband Doug. Shortly after they got married, Doug received the opportunity of becoming a newspaper reporter. Margaret did not feel that it would be a prime idea to work with her husband and his other employee. When she was given the choice to give up working as a newspaper reporter or continue writing she chose writing. She took this opportunity to stay home and work on her writing critiques and would begin writing her soon to be first published book. During this time, she made her dissociative decision that her time in her career of writing books would be spent writing only fiction. She wrote her first book in 1995 that was hoped to be a success and would become published. With it being her first book it came with a lot of rejection like many unknown authors get when trying to publish their first books. But after a long road of rejection, which lasted an immense amount of time she had, had a baby that was then a year and a half old and her second child was on the way.