Monday, December 10, 2007

Great Works

1. Yes, it need to express a central theme in order to unify the story. The theme of a piece of literature is what makes the story interesting. Without it pointing out or commenting on something the story has no point, and is therefore a waste of the readers time. An example of a story that had no point and irritated me very much was Catcher in the Rye. It had no point and just kept going on and on about this rich kid who just kept getting drunk. On ther other had I really enjoyed The Great Gatsby. The story was a clear commentary on the American situation and about the falsehood of the rags to riches belief that permiates this country.

2. First of all, there are no such things as a great work of literature. These ideas are forced upon people by book reviewers and critics as well as our education system. Although I enjoyed The Great Gatsby, I don't consider it to be greater than all the other lesser known books. I think this leads us to all have the same cookie cutter ideas and does not allow us to explore and expand our litarary knowledge.

3. I want to have a great impact on this world, and I don't like being a writer will help me achieve my dreams. I want to help firstly, me own people, then the wider world in primary the fields of health and education. I feel passionatly about those two key issues because of me personal experiances early on. I think in order to do this I would need to be extremly rich and unless I write books a popular as J. K. Rowling's I won't make enough to accomplish my dreams.

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