Summary and Personal Response: “on Becoming a Writer”

Summary and Personal Response On become a writer Naomi Cranfield Prof. Denise Ogden ENG 115 28 October 2012 Summary and Personal Response On Becoming a Writer Mr. Russell bread maker is a professional writer whose books have earned him the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. The elicit On Becoming a Writer came from his memoir Growing Up (bread maker, 1982). In this section of his memoirs, Mr. Baker is explaining that pivotal moment in his behavior when he realized he wanted to become a writer.Russell (1982) says that he had been bored by everything associated with English courses. He had dreaded having to write compositions, and knew that they were non acceptable committal to writings. He didnt like having to read the tell apartics and said that it was as deadening as chloroform. He had an English instructor, Mr. Fleagle, who at premiere seemed to be straitlaced and puritanical. From his first impression of this teacher, he expected up to now another year of monotony and boredom. Then one day his class had been given an assignment to write an communicateal essay.Russell had been given a angle of inclination of topics to choose from for writing his essay. He took home this list and ignored it until the darkness before it was due. The topic that Mr. Baker chose to write ab proscribed was The Art of feeding Spaghetti. He chose this topic because it was the one that stood out the most to him. It reminded him of an occasion when his family was feeding spaghetti and the comical opinions of how to do it were making everybody laugh. It was at that moment that he in reality had an epiphany.There was something he really wanted to evoke into his writing, particularly for himself. He started writing with the intentions of rewriting another version for his teacher. However by the time he finished writing the legitimate he had no time to indite a proper, respectable essay for class. Mr. Baker had to turn in the original essay. He was sure that he was going to fail that lesson. When his English teacher had finished grading the classs essays, he returned all plainly Mr. Bakers. Young Russell Baker undecomposed knew that he was in trouble. exclusively of sudden Mr.Fleagle caught the oversight of Russell and the rest of the class and proceeded to read out shouted Russells essay. Everybody was enthralled and pleasantly amused with the essay to include Mr. Fleagle. That was when Russell Baker knew he wanted to be a writer. I believe that the innovation of this writing is so that Mr. Baker can share his experiences with his audience and to inform them of how it came to be that he wanted to become a writer. The genre of Mr. Bakers writing is a literacy narrative, because he is describing his thoughts on how he believed that he truly became a writer.I think that Mr. Bakers audience could by chance student writers, English students, and maybe even followers of his columns. The tone that he uses in this writing might be one of sati sfaction. He started out explaining his frustration with his English composition but then towards the end he was proud and satisfied with what he had accomplished. My response to this writing is, as a student who is currently taking an English composition class ripe(p) now, I do get very easily frustrated with having to write.I key it difficult to find a topic that interests me to the point of wanting to just let my words flow. I have a desire to be able to write something that will catch the readers attention and keep it but I have such a aphonic time with it. I also can relate to Mr. Bakers point of view that sometimes it takes something so simple as a family dinner to bring to mind a whole slew of fire and amusing ideas. References Baker, R. (1982) Growing up On becoming a writer. wise York, NY Don Congdon Associates