(Post # 9) Student’s Choosing: Originality
After reading all the books that were required for class one
thing really stood out to me about Lewis’s writing. This thing that stood out
to me was how different and original all of the books were. If I did not know
that Lewis was the author of The Space
Trilogy, Till We Have Faces, and The Chronicles of Narnia, I never would
have guessed that all these completely different books were by the same author.
I feel like a lot of the time authors tend to write about similar things but
not Lewis. I even found a quote that Lewis said about originality. Lewis
stated, “Even in literature and
art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you
simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been
told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever
having noticed it”. The fact that Lewis can write about completely different
things, really speaks to how amazing of an author he was. It is a shame that
his brother burned all his papers after he died because I bet that there were
hundreds of stories that were all completely different from each other.
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