In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of inflicting oneself upon other people, of saying, “listen to me, see it my way, modify your outlook.” It’s an aggressive, even antagonistic act. You can mask its qualifiers and tentative subjunctives with ellipses and evasions—with the whole comportment of insinuating rather than demanding or suggesting rather than stating. But, there’s no getting around the fact that placing words on paper is the ploy of a surreptitious bully, an incursion, a burden of the writer’s receptivity on the reader’s most sequestered space. These very reasons are why I write and how I employ my writing abilities.
I realized this in second grade as I started to devise my rejoinder to the dreaded inquiry: What do you want to be when you grow up? At seven years old, I understood the prospective leverage that stems from individuals’ voices. The power to move others and to paint the picture my way--I wanted to be an attorney. At 21, my aspiration has remained unchanged. I was knowledgeable about society’s conventional quandary regarding true morality, but more importantly, I …show more content…
Then, I am careful to demonstrate my aptness to vindicate a position with claims and evidence from each source--as stated in Eli Wald’s article, “gender stratification produces income differences many times greater than their labor forces.” During my presentation, I stood in front of my male-dominated spectators with contentment as I saw the shifting of bodies and as I heard the clearing of throats. My message was fervent, but I viewed this as a success. People contemplated, reflected on their actions. And for these very reasons, I write. To force myself on others in order to transform their
I realized this in second grade as I started to devise my rejoinder to the dreaded inquiry: What do you want to be when you grow up? At seven years old, I understood the prospective leverage that stems from individuals’ voices. The power to move others and to paint the picture my way--I wanted to be an attorney. At 21, my aspiration has remained unchanged. I was knowledgeable about society’s conventional quandary regarding true morality, but more importantly, I …show more content…
Then, I am careful to demonstrate my aptness to vindicate a position with claims and evidence from each source--as stated in Eli Wald’s article, “gender stratification produces income differences many times greater than their labor forces.” During my presentation, I stood in front of my male-dominated spectators with contentment as I saw the shifting of bodies and as I heard the clearing of throats. My message was fervent, but I viewed this as a success. People contemplated, reflected on their actions. And for these very reasons, I write. To force myself on others in order to transform their