Russell Baker Becoming A Writer Analysis

The story I chose to summarize and reflect was ‘Becoming a Writer”, by Russell Baker. Baker accentuated on how rapidly one can determine such fascination for something they never they had in them. Writing was a challenge for Baker, over his years of schooling, but it wasn’t until his third year of high school that gave him his purpose in life, becoming a writer. Baker disliked everything about the subject English. He described English classes as dull and boring, which led him to believe that this year would similar to his previous years of taking English classes, especially after meeting his teacher, Mr. Fleagle. Mr. Fleagle was described as a very “prim” individual. Baker said he was, “notorious among City students for dullness and inability to inspire”. …show more content…
Fleagle. Mr. Fleagle always concluded lectures with reciting the phrase, “Don’t you see.” Mr. Feagle had a hand on Baker’s inspiration to develop a trait of writing after Baker submitted his assignment titling, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti.” Baker recalled a time when he ate spaghetti with his family and how blissful it was. After reminiscing into the past, Baker states, “Suddenly I wanted to write about that, about the warmth and good feeling of it...,” He wanted to write it for the pleasure of himself and not his teacher. So after days of procrastination, Baker writes an informal essay on “The Art of Spaghetti”. He turns it in to the teacher, on the due date, and Baker is thrilled that the teacher thought his paper was one of the best papers written by his students, as he read it aloud to the class. Baker was filled with joy after hearing the words he wrote spoken aloud to the class. It was then that he decided he wanted to be a