reflection#8

Reflection #8

“Why write”

I always wonder why we write.  I am not a person who good in writing, so I usually think about a person who can write a foot thick of book. How long they are taking to write?  What they are writing about?  Should I say they write about themselves or the situation they meet? 

First of all, how do we know about history?  People wanted to keep an important situations or places by writing and sent a message to the next generation.  People in the present world learn history via the letter from the people who were closed to the king or the people who were in the situations, and they recorded all the situations to be collateral evidence.  I am taking Middle age Literature which most of exquisite poems talk about long history of a king or a country.  At the same time, novelists write a story to entertain readers or announce satiric story or situation thru all the representative characters in their works of art.  I think all the situations in a novel, a play, and a drama makes from real life, but it is depend on which part of people life and which society they are.  On the other hand, the story can be made from an author’s imagination, but slightly based on real world.  According to Jean-Paul Sartre’s why write noted that, “But if ourselves produce the rules of production, the measures, the criteria, and if our creative drive comes from the very depths of our heart, then we never find anything but ourselves in our work” (P. 1200).  I always some readers slip off words “That’s possible”.  I think nothing can be impossible.  Everything can happen to other, but it may not happen to us.