College Admissions Essay: I Will be a Writer! :: College Admissions Essays

I Will be a Writer deuce agrees helped me define myself as a author, or rather, helped me decide what kind of writer I would be. The first was the Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. I read it when I was a freshman in high school. By then, I had already begun to bend with questions of good and evil which I encountered in the novel and would later study with again and again in my poems. Perhaps because I had been raised Catholic, it do the novel more resonant for me, for I firmly believed in the populacely concern of evil, as firmly as I believed in the existence of worthiness and its power to transform, although at the end of the book, I had begun to realize that goodness unaccompanied is not always enough and that indeed, sometimes we are not modify by suffering, but are destroyed by it. The second book was Body Rags, poems by Galway Kinnell who made a profound impression on me. For weeks after reading Galway, I carried Body Rags around as if it were dedicated script, as if it were a sacred guide to the writing life. I commemorate feeling as if I had some amulet against the unpoetic mundane world I inhabited in my everyday life. I thought if a book could make such a difference, perhaps one day, if I persevered and was lucky enough to write one, I too could be an consumption to someone and that feeling encouraged me to keep writing. The other book I read around the same time, was The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima - I was reading a lot of Japanese fiction at the time.