How Victor Hugo Influenced Me
A writer is what I aspire to be. You know when you're a kid and most of the other kids say they want to be a artist or an astronaut,but I wanted to be an author. I assumed this just because I had quality English grades and I had a strong interest in reading, but as I got older I found the power of words to be the best way to express myself. I learned to create stories that help people see things differently, that bring new ideas to my readers. Later I started to look back at the authors that changed my life, children’s authors such as Jan brett, and Kate Dicamillo taught me how to use creativity as a superpower. Authors of a few of my favorite books such as Ruta Sepetys author of Salt to the Sea, and Between Shades of Gray and William Goldman author of The Princess
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Bride, taught me that love is not weakness and that the power of words can move even the most apathetic reader, but there was one writer who taught me the most important lesson his name was Victor Hugo and he had quite the story to share.
Many people know who George Washington is, many people know who Thomas Edison is, but not many know who Victor Hugo is, when he lived right around the same time these two historical figures and had just as large of an influence. He changed the history of writing for the greater good and still impacts the lives of several people today. The majority of people were probably introduced to his work at a young age. They Probably watched “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as a kid. Disney adapted the Novel written by Victor Hugo into a movie and it became an award winning motion picture that moved its audiences. This story was officially published in the year 1831 and it lived on because of Victor’s impact as an author, and this is just one book. Victor has written numerous novels but one other is also quite common in the modern era. Several have atleast heard of or seen the Broadway musical Les Miserables. (It was also adapted into a motion picture.) When little do these people know that this masterpiece was written in 1861 by the poet known as Victor Hugo. When I was young I became obsessed with Les
Miserables. My family fortunately owned the Twenty- fifth- anniversary concert, so I grew up to songs inspired by victor’s words. The story is his take on the French Revolution. A subject most students would find boring in school but I actually found the book and did my best to read it and later watched the pages come to life on stage in a heartbreaking but beautiful story filled with action, romance, sacrifice, redemption, hate, and more. It was astounding that one man could be the cause for evoking so much emotion in the hearts and minds of thousands of people.I want to do just that. I need to make society wonder not at what the world is but what it once was and what it now could be. I have to make an audience see the cruelty that grips human emotions and swings them around in a tornado of heartbreak, I need them to see the reason for sorrow and hate but I also have to show my audience the wonderment in the world. They’ll see blue skies and rays of sunshine that peek through the clouds on a rainy day. To show my readers what it means to have hope just as countless have done before me. Reminding them of a time they needed to band together and survive. This will be my legacy.
Victor being the wordsmith that he is, taught me that an author has something to say. Several writers may or may not have as large of an impact as him, another author may go down a completely different path, but each and every writer has a purpose. Whether that purpose is to show someone the true purpose in their life or to influence a whole generation. Every author has a purpose. I have a purpose.
Bride, taught me that love is not weakness and that the power of words can move even the most apathetic reader, but there was one writer who taught me the most important lesson his name was Victor Hugo and he had quite the story to share.
Many people know who George Washington is, many people know who Thomas Edison is, but not many know who Victor Hugo is, when he lived right around the same time these two historical figures and had just as large of an influence. He changed the history of writing for the greater good and still impacts the lives of several people today. The majority of people were probably introduced to his work at a young age. They Probably watched “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as a kid. Disney adapted the Novel written by Victor Hugo into a movie and it became an award winning motion picture that moved its audiences. This story was officially published in the year 1831 and it lived on because of Victor’s impact as an author, and this is just one book. Victor has written numerous novels but one other is also quite common in the modern era. Several have atleast heard of or seen the Broadway musical Les Miserables. (It was also adapted into a motion picture.) When little do these people know that this masterpiece was written in 1861 by the poet known as Victor Hugo. When I was young I became obsessed with Les
Miserables. My family fortunately owned the Twenty- fifth- anniversary concert, so I grew up to songs inspired by victor’s words. The story is his take on the French Revolution. A subject most students would find boring in school but I actually found the book and did my best to read it and later watched the pages come to life on stage in a heartbreaking but beautiful story filled with action, romance, sacrifice, redemption, hate, and more. It was astounding that one man could be the cause for evoking so much emotion in the hearts and minds of thousands of people.I want to do just that. I need to make society wonder not at what the world is but what it once was and what it now could be. I have to make an audience see the cruelty that grips human emotions and swings them around in a tornado of heartbreak, I need them to see the reason for sorrow and hate but I also have to show my audience the wonderment in the world. They’ll see blue skies and rays of sunshine that peek through the clouds on a rainy day. To show my readers what it means to have hope just as countless have done before me. Reminding them of a time they needed to band together and survive. This will be my legacy.
Victor being the wordsmith that he is, taught me that an author has something to say. Several writers may or may not have as large of an impact as him, another author may go down a completely different path, but each and every writer has a purpose. Whether that purpose is to show someone the true purpose in their life or to influence a whole generation. Every author has a purpose. I have a purpose.