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What can you gain from reading 'Why I Write' by George Orwell?

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Although this looks like a reading for a class assignment of some sorts (we've all been there before OP…you could just read it), but I'll give you some perspective on it presuming that you would like an outside perspective on this piece. read more

Everything you read can influence you or not. Certainly the writers who consider their own words and thoughtfully try to mold their message into one that can influence others are out there. But it is the reader who must decide if they are going to allow the wisdom or drabble of another to hold sway over them. read more

Equally interesting in that piece, though, is Orwell’s four main motivations for writing (condensed): Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc., etc. read more

“Why I write” is an essay by the renowned writer and essayist George Orwell, as the title of the essay suggests, it is an explanatory essay which focuses on the writer himself and his motives for writing, the essay is written in a plain and simple style and lacks any strong rhetorical devices or literary techniques. read more

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