Two Readings and a Couple Videos....

The point of the readings and videos we read and watched this week are directly related to the class theme of identity. Why I Write by George Orwell, in my opinion, dealt with what exactly influenced him to become the writer that he eventually became and how writing is horrible but there is something about writing which drove him to keep writing otherwise he probably would not have. Why I Write by Joan Didion also dealt with her personal style of writing which apparently was more about remembering and describing exact details than about the deeper meaning behind it all. The video New Media Literacies had people from MIT talking about how the media world is rapidly changing pace from producers and consumers being totally separate entities to the producer and consumer being one in the same using mediums like YouTube and Facebook to get their ideas to the rest of the world. The final video was a short interview with the awesome Johnny Cash. He talked about how a teacher told him not to try and imitate anyone but to make any song his own. I think that all of these materials brought up a good point on how we as individuals need to find our individual voice as a writer or a person in general.