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The Moral Point of View
BbB (pg 103-109)
This chapter kind of reminds me of the passage about metaphor that I quoted in a previous post (Lamott 77). Lamott says in that passage that metaphors only work if the writer truly believes in the underlying principle behind the metaphor. This chapter is basically an extension on this idea—writing, real literature, is only powerful if there is a human truth behind it. As my tenth grade English teacher taught us, archetypes are at the heart of literature, and without them, literature is useless. Without these archetypes, the written word is nothing more than mindless drivel—anything but insightful and therefore completely useless. Mrs. Gasaway knew her stuff…I guess that’s why she got the Honors kids. Anne Lamott takes this idea a step further. She says, “If your deepest beliefs drive your writing, they will not only keep your work from being contrived but will help you discover what drives your characters” (105). Clearly, Lamott knows her stuff, too.
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