Becoming The Pilot In Mark Twain's 'Life On The Mississippi'

Becoming The Pilot Starting my senior year I wanted to prepare myself for college. I wanted to get a feel for what college would be like so I decided to take the English Composition 100 through the University of Maine at Fort Kent. I had never taken an online class before, I had no idea what to expect. My friends who are in college right now say that English Composition is one of the hardest classes their freshman year. Hearing that made me nervous, but I love a challenge. Our first assignment was to read a chapter Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi”. He wrote it in two parts. The first part tells a story about learning to be a pilot, and the second part is the reflection about the story. We had to write in our reading journal a summary about the memoir and be able to tell were the story ends, and where Twain starts to reflect on it. After reading the memoir, it made me really think about how other people see the world. As a pilot you are in control of what is happening, and as a passenger you sit bak and let
Orwell believes that what it means to be a good writer is to have the reader get to know the author. While Didion writes down what she feels, is looking at, and what it means. Orwell says to never write a story unless you are possessed by some demon you can’t get out of. While Didion said that she wouldn’t have become a writer if she didn’t have her credentials in order. I think that Didion would like my story better than Orwell would because I express my emotion more rather than having my readers get to know myself. You ask me who I am as a writer, and as a writer I believe that I am someone who gets confused, but who figures it out at the end. Someone who isn’t afraid to show my emotion. I feel that Didion would enjoy my story more than Orwell because I am writing about me and what I’m feeling. Rather than almost writing a