Why I Write

L.A. Class-Reading Blog-Memoir

   This memoir, written by George Orwell, gives us a look into the well known writer's background.  We are told that this is done because he believes that one cannot properly judge how well a writer writes unless we know something of his or her motivations for writing and why that's person writes-     what that person's motivations for sharing stories with the rest of the world.

   Despite telling us that he was writing for years, throughout his childhood and into his adult life, excluding a dry period where he abandoned his more artistic side, he seems to think that he isn't very good at writing. Based off the line near the end, "every book is a failure,". There is another way for that to be interpreted, however. It could mean that he recognizes that there will always be those that dislike his books, and there will always be a critic that gives it a bad review.

   Throughout the short view into George Orwell's life, we are given the idea that he is humble, and has decided to keep going, and ignore those that don't favour his writing. He says that he writes for a purpose- and that purpose is to not entertain, but to inform and occasionally protest to what he finds to be wrongdoings in the government.