Know Thyself By Mary Pipher Reflective Essay

Till now, I 've been a writer who failed to acknowledge he’s a writer. I always considered myself a mathematician, someone who works well with number. The first few chapters of Mary Pipher’s “Writing to Change the World” helped change that perspective. As Flipping through, from the first to the 60th page, I expected a step by step guide for writing with a fancy title. This was not the case . The book was not what I assumed a high school senior would ever read. I assumed the focus now would be the core of literature and all the complicated terms that comes with it. Instead, this book starts off by teaching something students should have been but were not taught in the elementary years. I learned why we write. Writing has the power of change and we, all with are own unique perspectives, have a role to play. I now believe that i am a writer, someone who has that power of change, with a duty share my knowledge and seeks

Starting with her second and third chapter. She Shows how a writer cannot truly write to the best of their ability till they know themselves. Chapter two, “Know thyself,” is about having a sense of yourself. Most of this section her story. She Speaks of her Parents and relatives, filled with different views that were not truly right or wrong. Pipher, knowing all of her past what concluded the memories mean to her, willing to share it with a worldwide audience, is a kind of example I think a high school student should know. When it comes to writing anything personal, students crash into a great wall. They are then told to climb. They must climb using their own unique thoughts and emotions. They must climb using their own journey through life. One of the first things a high school students notices is lack of the use of the pronoun I. Pipher shows it takes our own soul searching, within your journey, before quality writing can be generated. That kind of writing “helps us see why our stories