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One: I am a Thinker, and I Think Thinks

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Writers are readers. To me, reading and writing go together because each involves complex thinking about a piece of art. Whether is it trying to decipher the undertones of a novel or creating a setting, characters and a plot that flow together, each involves intense concentration and people have to love what they are doing. Reading is very important to writers because it allows them to become engrossed in someone else’s ideas which could then help them generate their own ideas later on. Ideas flow from others ideas and writers need to make each idea their own but they can become inspired from reading other novels. It is also important for writers to read others works because it shows support for the writing community and allows for people to have discussions based on similar books that they have read and loved.

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Something in the world that concerns me is all of the children starving in Africa and the genocide that is currently going on there. Although there are many groups trying to bring awareness to the problems in Africa, so much more needs to happen for it to get remotely better. I feel strongly about this issue because these are just children who haven’t really done anything wrong in their lives and they have no food, they are starving to death because they have no money.

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One piece of work that has greatly inspired me is the book, My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This book is about two sisters and how one is used to give bone marrow to the other who has leukemia. I think that it was very well written and through the change in all of the points of view throughout the novel I really got to know all of the characters. This novel inspired me because I felt so connected to the characters and I wanted to know what motivated the characters to make the choices they did. My Sister’s Keeper solidified my love of reading and through this novel I learned about the inner connections between different family members.