The Reason for Writing
Writers are influenced by their lives by the people the people they grow up around by the experiences they have had. In these three essays “Mother Tongue” By Amy Tan, “Why I Write” By George Orwell, and “ The Black Writer and the Southern Experience” By Alice Walker, they all had different experiences that led them to become writers. The categories that would be given on what influenced them is culture, family, and time. These do link all three essays together but most of them are a common theme throughout and have major influence on why they write. These Categories influence what type of writer they became and why they chose to write in the first place.
Culture is an influence on many writers it is there back ground. Culture gives the readers an idea of what they writer grew up around. Culture is a major influence in Tan’s, Walker’s, and Orwell’s essays. Tan’s …show more content…
Orwell’s essay is influenced by time because he was born in 1903 and grew up during a time of crisis and war. Since a very early age he was influenced by war and politics. He say “where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books” (Orwell). Walker grew up in a time where racism was rapid and being a Black writer in the south was a difficult time. She had to overcome many adversities and doubts “I told a middle aged northerner that I hoped to be a poet he suggested that a “farmer daughter” might not be the stuff of which poets are made”( Walker). This kind of doubt pushed her even harder to become a writer. Tan’s essay was not so much of time but as she was growing up she knew that she loved language. While she was growing up she had to help her mother with certain task that normal children don’t normally help with she was influenced by time because her influences happened when she was younger as well as
Writers are influenced by their lives by the people the people they grow up around by the experiences they have had. In these three essays “Mother Tongue” By Amy Tan, “Why I Write” By George Orwell, and “ The Black Writer and the Southern Experience” By Alice Walker, they all had different experiences that led them to become writers. The categories that would be given on what influenced them is culture, family, and time. These do link all three essays together but most of them are a common theme throughout and have major influence on why they write. These Categories influence what type of writer they became and why they chose to write in the first place.
Culture is an influence on many writers it is there back ground. Culture gives the readers an idea of what they writer grew up around. Culture is a major influence in Tan’s, Walker’s, and Orwell’s essays. Tan’s …show more content…
Orwell’s essay is influenced by time because he was born in 1903 and grew up during a time of crisis and war. Since a very early age he was influenced by war and politics. He say “where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books” (Orwell). Walker grew up in a time where racism was rapid and being a Black writer in the south was a difficult time. She had to overcome many adversities and doubts “I told a middle aged northerner that I hoped to be a poet he suggested that a “farmer daughter” might not be the stuff of which poets are made”( Walker). This kind of doubt pushed her even harder to become a writer. Tan’s essay was not so much of time but as she was growing up she knew that she loved language. While she was growing up she had to help her mother with certain task that normal children don’t normally help with she was influenced by time because her influences happened when she was younger as well as