Mary Pipher's Writing To Change The World

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In Language Awareness for College Readers, an excerpt from Mary Piphers Writing to Change the World (2006), Pipher shares how writing should challenge us and change the world. At twelve years old Mary Pipher first read the Diary of Anne Frank. It changed her view on the good and the bad in the world. It opened her eyes to the evil in the world and how adults would systematically kill children. It took away her spiritual innocence. The reading of Anne Frank ultimately changed her view on the world.

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