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Syril Levin Kline
a book bubble about
Shakespeare's Changeling
Literature & Fiction
Author Insight
The Big Orange Dumpster
Ah, the chaos of moving! It’s a time for sorting clutter, trashing the unnecessary, and retaining only the significant. It’s a lot like editing a book! In the case of our upcoming move to another state, a huge orange dumpster occupies my driveway, its heavy metal mouth gaping open to receive vast quantities of unwanted junk that have accumulated over 51 years from four generations of my family. Like the metaphorical dumpster of editing, where words and sentences that don’t move the plot are tossed aside, it makes way for a revised and more streamlined version. I trim those things that no longer move the story while preserving key pieces of family history. Like editing, moving is a daunting challenge but not an impossible one.
Book Excerpt
Shakespeare's Changeling
In conclusion, it is important that we connect an author with his or her work, especially in terms of Shakespeare and the world’s greatest plays. In doing so, we show students that writers create within the context of their experience and environment. Learning, thinking and writing merge, and the result is a completely unique individual perspective. This can be seen in John Steinbeck’s empathy with migrant farm workers, Mark Twain’s steamboat life on the Mississippi, Emily Dickinson’s reclusive spiritual reflections and Harper Lee’s childhood brush with racism. An author’s life experience is the framework for a literary masterpiece.
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