6 Writers Who Saved My Life
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Marina DelVecchio
November 2010
Contributor
Written by
Marina DelVecchio
November 2010
During a job interview a few years back, the Chair of the English department asked, Why English? I didn’t have to think of the answer. Literature saved my childhood. It filled my loneliness and the many silences I tolerated as a child with words and characters and worlds I had not known. A young girl, I had no adult voices that volunteered to guide me, or help me make sense of my experiences with violence, abandonment, adoption, two very different mothers and two equally different childhoods. I lived in a world without words or communication, but in books I discovered what was lacking in my life. Reading gave me the words with which to articulate and understand my pain, my loneliness, the complex people I had known, and the reasons for which they behaved as they did. An astute and eager student, I somehow learned the value of literature, and listened intently to the messages they sent me through their characters. The following writers carried me safely from elementary school all the way to college, comforting me during my adoption; they were my real mothers, my teachers, and my only sisters: Go to http://marinagraphy.com to read how Charlotte Bronte and Emily Dickinson, among others, saved my childhood.

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  • KBell

    In our society today ,much to often we will find young adults who face the same situations.Slience and fear often controls soul and controls and mind.When children are faced with many adversities such as abuse,neglect and often divorce.Utlizing pen and paper as their weapon can be very theraputic.