Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Writing is as Diverse as we are

I think that everyone's writing styles differ. Sometimes as students we are asked to write in certain ways that are not our own and it can be very frustrating. For example, my writing style is probably different than many of my classmates. This does not mean that I will not like their writing because as Booth said we have to have an appreciation for an authors work. The fact that everyone's writing styles differ is the reason that literature is truly beautiful. If everyone's work was just the same shit over and over again we would all be bored to tears. But since its not we have great works on both ends of the spectrum like Dante's Inferno and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. If Dante and Twain had the same styles I doubt both of these books would have done as well as there did because the would have been the same. 
Literature is ever changing, new works are constantly coming out, and with each work is a different writing style. The fact that there is all these different writers and writing styles gives readers perspectives from all different types of people and all different corners of the world. Literature has been around for ages and I believe the reason that it as strong as it was a while ago is because of how much each book differs from another. This can be related to television, many people like television because of all the different channels that are on and all the different options they have. This is just like reading because a library is like a channel changer where has each shelf is access to a different world just like each button is access to a different world. Humans these days....get bored easily, but with all the different styles of writing and different books how could someone get bored with reading?

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