Jennifer Joel's Influenced My Writing

Plenty of teenagers read books every day for entertainment and for school. But they don’t just read for amusement or that they need it for their classwork, they read because it is what they go to when things turn rough. Like what people said, books are a powerful thing, it can be hopeful and scary. Sherman Alexie is a wonderful writer, poet, and has published plenty of novels and short stories. Sherman Alexie’s purpose of writing is to give teenagers hope that things would work out alright, although it might be rough from time to time, and he also uses humor to entertain his readers. He provides teenagers things that they can relate to, and he addresses many crucial issues in his works. He uses numerous amount of stylistic techniques in his

In his career as a screenwriter, he wrote several screenplays that gained recognition. One of his screenplays Fanboys, written in 1998, achieved interest to be sold by

She does not understand why the older and well-known authors are not being read in high school. Prose uses a personal experience from her son’s sophomore English class. He had to read a “weeper and former bestseller by Judith Guest” (424), about a dysfunctional family dealing with a teenage son’s suicide attempt. “No instructor has ever asked my sons to read Alice Munro, who writes so lucidly and beautifully about the hypersensitivity that makes adolescence a hell,”(424). She again mentions books she approves of that should be read in English classes.

has some family ties and was written with a bit more passion than the average fifth grade book.

He has gone to Vine Hill Elementary School, Scotts Valley Middle School, and is soon to attend Scotts Valley High School. While not at school he skateboards. He isn’t as good as the others but still enjoys it a lot,

In 1942 Louis was inducted into the US army, where he went to Europe and while he was there he used some of the terrain in his books. Upon his returned from Europe and his discharge from the army he found out that the market for Adventure short stories had disappeared. He had a friend who advised him to write about westerns because of his knowledge of cowboys and ranches. Several novels that were sold were made into movies and TV. One of his most recognized book that was made was Hondo starring John Wayne. That was the book/movie that started his success as a

Of the billions around us, only thirty percent leave school to pursue their dream career. Chris Colfer, an actor and author, had the determination to do so. From his acting career, he won a Golden Globe for his famous role as Kurt from Glee. His work, The Land of Stories series, landed the top slot in children’s novels, also another novel was recreated by Colfer and produced as the movie Struck By Lightning. At twenty-six, Colfer has accomplished much of his dream and will soon be ready to find a new one. However, great success does not come without struggle. Colfer’s courage through those conflicts is inspiring to those tentative about chasing their dream.

This book is going to be about a boy. Who use to live in New York state where its cold. Then moved to hot and sunny Houston,Tx with a family of four. Just trying to adjust a new life in Houston Texas. This boy had to leave all of his family and family in New York. It wasn't that hard for him to make new friends where he lived at. He's just had simple life in school until his senior year. Always made A’s in all his classes. He was an outstanding student. Now when high school came along that's where it all change.High school has it ups and downs .He didn't have a lot of friends as an underclassman. His junior year he was tired of being shy and quiet. High school was the time for his voice to be heard by other people.That's when the friends

I learned that he is from Mississippi. And that he visits his aunt rachel every summer. And he is 7 years old.

Daniel Sempre, age 10, son of a book collector. Not just any book collector- an antique book collector. One day at dawn, his father took him to the Cemetery of forgotten books, a library. Not any type of library, a secret library where books are passed down from generations, books that were forgotten and

He loves roaming around outdoors with his friends. They just hop on a train and go anywhere it leads to. When he’s not going to faraway places, you could find him exercising at the gym or playing his favourite sport, basketball. Other days when he’s relaxing at home, he’ll just turn on Spotify and listen to some rap music.

At his first week he doesn’t sell a single paper and his mom has his sister tutor him in salesmanship. By the end he is really good at selling newspapers(even though he doesn’t like doing it) and after his mother sees his paper and liked it a lot she suggest to him to become a writer.

of his time saving money to watch movie as he was inspired to become an actor. When

Born on August 20th, 1958, David O. Russell had a successful life following him. He was raised in a atheist and middle class household in Larchmont, New York. Due to his parents working at Simon & Schuster, books and newspapers were constantly scattered around the house, most likely the reason for him aspiring to become a writer. In high school he started his own newspaper and was constantly writing short stories. Hence him going to Amherst College where he majored in English and Political Science. Yet, Russel always had a love for film in him. He created his first movie at the age of 13 for a school project and his love of movies grew into high school when he had some favorites such as, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, and Shampoo.

poet, Playwright and an actor. He’s known as the best writer in the English language and the