Part 1- the last two chapters put me in the mindset of a book I read in high school about WW2 in the South Pacific called Goodbye, Darkness by William Manchester. That book chronicles the life of a man at war and his return back to the hill he spent most of his time fighting upon. Many similar emotions were evoked by both. In Manchester's book the question of what our purpose is is brought up quite often to the end and I feel like Hugo almost gives us that. Our purpose is to share as much as we can and hope that "we have been honest enough to scream back at the fates."
Part 2- I feel like this is one of my first introductions to setting poetry to a specific place or time to turn the work into more of a story. Do I know if this will work with my style of writing? No, but it's worth the try to find out (or at least I think so). It's also kind of helped my attitude towards literature itself and the importance of new works. No one can write the poem I could and I couldn't write the poem someone else could. Each of our efforts are unique and genuine and no one can ever take that from someone.
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I really like your take away James, no matter what you write or how you write the writing will always be unique and yours and experimenting while writing can help you grow as a writer. Good luck with your writing James.
ReplyDeleteI love that literature is unique from person to person and it is so interesting to read other people's works and to see how they write. Everyone's writing is beautiful in its own different way and I love that.
ReplyDeleteI like how you mention how your writing is unique and no one else can write what you do. Everyones style is different and thats what makes reading others writing enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your connection to the book you read. I read a book, also about WWII, called Odette's Secrets. It was very similar in this way. She really paints pictures about the places she had to travel to. It was a short and easy read, even for dyslexic little ol' me. It was more from the perspective of someone who managed to avoid the worst messes of the war.
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