While riding my bike recently, I came upon this large tree which had been uprooted by strong winds. What struck me at this scene was that two significantly smaller trees were now supporting the larger fallen tree.
The thought came to me that writers are often a similar kind of help and support in the societies in which they live. Many have attempted to effect change in their countries and neighborhoods by calling their readers to consider weighty subjects. Charles Dickens was one such writer. He caused readers to grapple with the injustice of the debtors’ prison in Little Dorrit and the predatory English legal system of the 19th century in Bleak House.
In his own era, John Steinbeck confronted the plight of migrant farmworkers in The Grapes of Wrath, and Harper Lee exposed the horrors of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. To write with the hope of effecting change is a solemn responsibility, and one that writer’s should approach with great care and gravity.
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