Why People Write ? People write for many reasons. They write to educate, , and to entertain to express their feelings of emotions of joy or sadness, also to preserve historyIn Maya Angelou’s story “Graduation” in Fields of Reading she teaches us about racism in the south in the 1940’s. Angelou writes about how schools in the south were segregated. Black students were deprived of resources to enable students to learn. While schools were endowed with all the resources needed for a prominent education. They were going to have the newest microscopes and chemistry equipment for their laboratory.1Not only does Maya Angelou write about lack of resources in the black schools she also writes that even after the students graduated that they merely going to be carpenter, athletes and entertainers.…and our boys ( the girls weren’t even on it) would try to be Jesse Owensesand Joe Louises.2 Maya Angelou is not the only writer who wrote to educate her readers. Prince Modupe who wrote The Royal African, educated people about his culture, his religion and how power among his people was passed down through women.Prince Modupe tells us about how his courage was tested by the elders by fighting with leopards. this is the way a youths courage was tested by the elders of the community.I am that youth whose courage was tested in hand to hand combat with a leopard.3Prince Modupe also talks about how everything is passed down through the women from generation to generation. These things consisting of property, rights, and even the succession to the throne..Our nations system was matriarchal. Grandfather sat the throne because there was no female successor for the office in his mother’s family…descended through women.4Another writer who writes to educate is Martin Luther King. He writes about racism and about non-violence in the United States in the 1960’s. King speaks of liberalism and neo-...
