We write because either we want to or we need to.We can also write for a reason for instance a test or a shopping list or also a wish list for Christmas.There are many reasons we have to write.
A famous saying about writing: "The pen is mightier than the sword" — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He was a British poet, playwright, novelist and politician! He wrote this well-known adage (saying) in his play called Richelieu. It was about Cardinal Richelieu.
I find this very famous saying interesting because it tells us that a good education, a healthy way of seeing the world and good behaviour is more important than physically fighting (wars, on the school grounds, gang fighting) !!!!
Actually to answer this question I thought it would be a good idea to go back a bit to show how it developed over the years and how people worked so hard to get things down on paper and record information.
A short history of writing
We have gone from walls in caves, to Egyptian graves, to printing, to the internet and beyond!! People have always wanted to communicate with each other. For example, to show their belongings, to share their ideas and thoughts, to show their aims and successes, to teach others and learn from others, to have evidence of deals.
8000 years back people kept count of boats, goats and coats in pictures. They did this to keep record of their belongings. Today we use computer software to do pretty much the same thing!!
200BC (Before Christ) the Greeks added letters. They put them together and put them in libraries. Were the books too precious to borrow? Or could people borrow them? I don’t think so ;-))
200AD (After Christ) The Romans took these scrolls and put holes in them to make them easier to store and sort out. These then landed on shelves.
However, writing was not for everybody!! Back then it was only for the religious and powerful. The monks and churches kept the knowledge for themselves. They did not share! Why did they not want to share? Very simple! Knowledge is power!!
Nevertheless, outside the Church writing started to spread and that meant people could learn about things like the sky, the water, the nature. Whatever they wanted to learn!
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffry Chaucer 1342–1400) was published. Too many people wanted it for entertainment but too few were around!! Why were there too few? There weren’t enough monks to write these books!! Have you read any of these stories?
Did the Chinese want to read interesting books as well? Of course!! The Chinese invented printing and the earliest dates back to 220 AD. They used woodblock printing on textiles and later on paper. This technology moved over to the West. The problem was solved!
Then Gutenberg came on the scene!! He invented the Printing Press. Do you believe he thought that his idea would develop so far? To laser printers? This changed the world forever. Printed ideas spread like wildfire!! Millions of newspapers were printed all over the world and read by millions and millions. There were books for children, books for teens, books for Mums and Dads!!! Everybody could read at home!!
Today we have the Internet. We can publish writings on it. Good or bad!! Do you Google a lot? Do you look up things on the Internet?
I hope I have answered your question. To sum up we write for entertainment (short stories, poetry, crime stories, comedy, jokes) for teaching (text books) and learning (dictionary, novels) for recording things (inventions like Velcro, the light bulb and Brail), history, contracts and so on. The list is endless.
I think we write because we want other people to know what we think.
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We write because either we want to or we need to.We can also write for a reason for instance a test or a shopping list or also a wish list for Christmas.There are many reasons we have to write.
ReplyDeleteI'm writing a diary and i write it to remember my thought's and somtimes
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-Lisa
Fionúir says:
ReplyDeleteA famous saying about writing: "The pen is mightier than the sword" — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He was a British poet, playwright, novelist and politician! He wrote this
well-known adage (saying) in his play called Richelieu. It was about Cardinal Richelieu.
I find this very famous saying interesting because it tells us that a good education, a healthy way of seeing the world and good behaviour is more important than physically fighting (wars, on the school grounds, gang fighting) !!!!
-Fionúir
We write because we want to communicate and to exchange our thoughts and ideas.
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Fionúir Mc Bennett
ReplyDeleteWhy do we write?
Actually to answer this question I thought it would be a good idea to go back a bit to
show how it developed over the years and how people worked so hard to get things down on paper and record information.
A short history of writing
We have gone from walls in caves, to Egyptian graves, to printing, to the internet and beyond!! People have always wanted to communicate with each other.
For example, to show their belongings, to share their ideas and thoughts, to show their aims and successes, to teach others and learn from others, to have evidence of deals.
8000 years back people kept count of boats, goats and coats in pictures. They did this to keep record of their belongings. Today we use computer software to do pretty much the same thing!!
200BC (Before Christ) the Greeks added letters. They put them together and put them in libraries. Were the books too precious to borrow? Or could people borrow them? I don’t think so ;-))
200AD (After Christ) The Romans took these scrolls and put holes in them to make them easier to store and sort out. These then landed on shelves.
However, writing was not for everybody!! Back then it was only for the religious and powerful. The monks and churches kept the knowledge for themselves. They did not share! Why did they not want to share? Very simple! Knowledge is power!!
Nevertheless, outside the Church writing started to spread and that meant people could learn about things like the sky, the water, the nature. Whatever they wanted to learn!
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffry Chaucer 1342–1400) was published. Too many people wanted it for entertainment but too few were around!! Why were there too few? There weren’t enough monks to write these books!! Have you read any of these stories?
Did the Chinese want to read interesting books as well? Of course!! The Chinese invented printing and the earliest dates back to 220 AD. They used woodblock printing on textiles and later on paper. This technology moved over to the West. The problem was solved!
Then Gutenberg came on the scene!! He invented the Printing Press. Do you believe he thought that his idea would develop so far? To laser printers? This changed the world forever. Printed ideas spread like wildfire!! Millions of newspapers were printed
all over the world and read by millions and millions. There were books for children, books for teens, books for Mums and Dads!!! Everybody could read at home!!
Today we have the Internet. We can publish writings on it. Good or bad!!
Do you Google a lot? Do you look up things on the Internet?
I hope I have answered your question. To sum up we write for entertainment (short stories, poetry, crime stories, comedy, jokes) for teaching (text books) and learning (dictionary, novels) for recording things (inventions like Velcro, the light bulb and Brail), history, contracts and so on. The list is endless.
-Fionúir
Lucia-
ReplyDeleteIn medieval They used Letters to warn or give tips!
We write because we want to share what we think- and know
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we write because it teach's us anything we want to know.
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