SUMMARY OF OUR FIRST TOPIC: TEXT BY GEORGE ORWELL
SHIRLEY AMANDA ASTUDILL LOPEZ
FRANKLIN ALVAREZ
ENGLISH VII
FRANKLIN ALVAREZ
ENGLISH VII
The text written by George Orwell, first published in 1946 by Gangrel, 6B, London, is trying to explain why writers write. Beginning with a life story; his own experience as a writer, since he was a little boy, step by step through his childhood and adolescence. He tells the feelings he had at that time like isolation, besides the habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary people. Moreover how and why he tried to abandon the idea of being a writer, but taking into account that sooner or later he would have to settle down to write books.
His story covers how he started writing poems, how he felt about doing it, his first publication in a local newspaper and the kind of books he wanted to write: enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake of their own sound.
The whole information above is given to get into his motives to write without forgetting his development as a writer. George Orwell, considering that each writer has motives to write, proposes four great ones, taking into account that they exist in different degrees in each writer, they are:
1. Sheer egoism: desire to seem clever and to be remembered after death.
2. Aesthetic enthusiasm: perception of beauty in the external world.
3. Historical impulse: desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.
4. Political purpose: desire to push the world in a certain direction.
Finally, he drives the text into a conclusion, emphasizing his own style and his desire to make political writing into an art, describing writers and the activity of writing; the first one as vain, selfish and lazy people and the second one as an exhausting struggle that should not be taken if there is not an amazing force impossible to resist and understand.
His story covers how he started writing poems, how he felt about doing it, his first publication in a local newspaper and the kind of books he wanted to write: enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake of their own sound.
The whole information above is given to get into his motives to write without forgetting his development as a writer. George Orwell, considering that each writer has motives to write, proposes four great ones, taking into account that they exist in different degrees in each writer, they are:
1. Sheer egoism: desire to seem clever and to be remembered after death.
2. Aesthetic enthusiasm: perception of beauty in the external world.
3. Historical impulse: desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.
4. Political purpose: desire to push the world in a certain direction.
Finally, he drives the text into a conclusion, emphasizing his own style and his desire to make political writing into an art, describing writers and the activity of writing; the first one as vain, selfish and lazy people and the second one as an exhausting struggle that should not be taken if there is not an amazing force impossible to resist and understand.
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