Summary Of The Last Time By Charles Baxter

I went and saw the author Charles Baxter at the Reedley College the other day, it was the first time I had ever attended anything like that before, like sat in while an author read a few paragraphs from his book. It was very interesting being able to hear pieces of a book knowing we could ask question to the man who wrote the book himself. The room was filled with people, so many people that they had to bring in chairs, people were even sitting on the stairs, and in the front on the floor. The room was pretty warm for it being cold outside and raining but that’s understandable since there was a lot of people in one place. It was pretty cool to hear what others wanted to ask the author and his responses to the questions he was asked. He was very honest about the answers he gave. …show more content…
It was interesting to me when he said that his parents didn’t approve of his career choice but went down that path anyway and actually became a famous author. I have never given much thought about props in a book when I read them until he mentioned about remembering what you put in the book because you can use it later on in the story. For reasons of helping a character be saved or even kill a character off with a prop you have written in the story. He made me realize when we write a piece of any kind of paper that we are making up as we type, we control the limits, the limits of when people come into a story, when they leave, how they die, or even how main the character