My favorite writer
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My favorite writer
Anton Kondrashow
form 8 B
Minsk 2003
I'm fond of reading. Usually I borrow books from the library, but I
have a lot of them at home, too. I like to read books about the history of our
country, about famous people and the life of my contemporaries abroad.
Literature means much in my life. It helps to form the character and the world
outlook, to understand life better. My favoririte English writer is Daniel Defo
: he was the founder of the
realistic novel. He was also a brilliant journa-list and in many ways the
father of modern English periodicals. He founded and paved the way for many
magazines ( "The Revue", "The Spectator"). DD was born in
London, his father a butcher, was wealthy enough to give his sone a good education.
D was to become a prist, but it was his cheariched desire to become wealthy.
His wished was never fullfield. D was banckrote several times. He was always in
deep debt. The inly branch of business in which he proved succesful was
journalism and literature. When D was about 23 he started writting pamphlets on
question of the hour. He started writting pamphlets prassing King William 3,
who was supported by the whig party. D wrote a setire in woth. No matter in
whose defends his brilliant pamphlets were written they are irony was so
subtle, that the enemy didn't understand it at first. But as soon as his enemy
realised the real character of the pamphlets D was sentensed to 7 years
inprisonment. It was a cruel punishment, and when the came for him to be set free
people carried him on their shoulders.. This was the climax of his political
career and the end of it. In 1719, he tried his hand at another kind of
literature - fiction, and wrote the novel he is now best known: "Robison
Crusoe". After the book was published, D became famous and rich and was
able to pay his creditors in full. Other novels which D were also very much
talked about during his lifetime, but we do not hear much about them now. For
example "Captain Singleton"(1720), "Moll Flanders"(1722). My famous book is Robinson Crusoe : It was about Scotish
sailor, who lived quite alone 4 years and 4 month on a desert island. Defoe's hero,
however spend 26 years on a desert island. The novel was a prase tohuman labour
and the triumph the men over the nature. Labour and fortitude help Robinson to
endure hardships. They save him from dispair. The very process of hardwork
gives his satisfaction. R's most characteristic tract is his optimism. His
guiding prencipal in life was: "never said die" and "in trouble
to be troubles is to have your trouble double." In his book Defo
deseccribes adventures of people take risks. His books tought us to be clever
and brave. There are many famous people in our republik. First
of all I'd like to mention the name of our outstanding national writers Yanka
Kupala and Yakub Kolas. They created a new Belarusian Literature and a
Belarusian literatury language. Both are considered to be the classics of
Belorusian literature. These names are followed by a number of other well-known
writers and poets, such as K.Krapiva, Brovka, Tank, Byikov, Korotkevich,
Gilevich, Adamovich known both in our country and abroad. Their names are sure
to become history whatever it may be.
I like to read books very much !!!