Analysis Of Lamarian Watkins's Tuesdays With Morrie

When LaMarian Watkins was a young boy in elementary school, his mother, an aspiring school teacher, would sit him down and tell him to read and write for two hours every day. His mother wanted to make sure he had a strong reading and comprehending level at a young age. She knew it was imperative to have knowledge built on a strong foundation. This continued until Mr. Watkins attended Hickory Ridge Middle School in Memphis, TN where he started to write on his own for pleasure. During middle school, his emotions were at their highest, so he needed an escape. He used to create stories from sport movies and sport books that he watched as a teenager. LaMarian used the characters to form a descriptive story to pull his audience in. For LaMarian, when he wrote or read, he felt as if he was watching a movie in his head. Mr. Watkins started writing because he wanted to include …show more content…
LaMarian had the foundation from a prior source, he would flush out his characters, add personal experiences and emotions into the story, and would write about situations that the original source hadn’t put them through before. LaMarian’s favorite book was Tuesdays with Morrie because “it was so descriptive, it felt as if I was there. I started to care for the characters” (Watkins). Mr. Watkins wrote as soon as he got home, but it didn’t stop there. He would run through the past scenes to make sure it was drawing a vivid picture for his audience, and he would create the future scenes that he wrote about when he got home. For LaMarian, writing was like a portal into his mind for which the audience could see vision. He wanted to make sure that the audience empathized with the characters in a believable and realistic situations. Later in middle school, his emotions were at their all-time high. To express his emotions, he often wrote about his life and feelings through