The Power Of Words.

I think people underestimate the power of words, even I do it. Most of the times I don’t read a book because I now they movie is going to come out soon so I simply watch the movie later. Even if my mom and sister say that the book is a million times better. I have to say they were right. I recently read a book called Twilight and fell in love with it, the came out and as I watched it I could not help but think how much they omitted from the book. It was a good movie, but compared to the book it was mediocre. There was no way the movie could describe what a paragraph or even a sentence in the book said.

In the essay The, Sentence is a Lonely Place, Gary Lutz displays the respect and importance language has. He describes how he discovered the importance of words and personifies the words. “the words fizzed and popped and tinkled and bonged”. I saw it as a way to influence reader. The essay wants to give words and language power. This leads back to my example of the movie. A movie may be really good it, by representing the book in a literal way like Pride and Prejudice, still the book is more powerful because of the impact words causes. It may also depend on the writer, to be able to cause that impact on the reader you have to be able to write well. What I am trying to say is that I agree with Lutz, words are magical, and the way he writes this essay to show the power that language has. You never actually come to think about this until you read the essay. How Lutz plays his own example of how he became engaged with words makes you reflect that he is saying the truth. It is an interesting piece of writing that not only makes the reader reflect on what is said but shows how the author uses his own beliefs to write a great piece of writing.