"How To Write with Style" Summary

Pierce, Chad

How to Write with Style

The short passage "How to Wright with Style" By Kurt Vonnegut a well renounced writer from Indianapolis, Indiana who served in World War 2  talks in this passage about, how to fluently and excitingly write passages that will entice the reader to like your style of reading. He speaks on how to pull the reader in and make the passage interesting enough to make the reader want to keep reading and come back for more. Vonnegut quotes Shakespeare "To be or not to be" and talk about how its almost like a childish sentence; however the longest word in that sentence was three letters. It is now a famously known line and will for even longer the world of writing never lose its value. He also quotes the opening line in the Bible even though its the most read book in the world, the first line in the Bible sounds like it was written by a fourteen year old boy. Kurt then goes on and talks about how people should write using their natural way of speaking. He compares the varieties of speech to the variety of butterflies, and the beauty in both. He then goes on about how teachers are misunderstood by the way kids think its all just busy work. But teachers are there to make your words come out effectively so you may be understood in your writing. Also about how we Americans are governed under the constitution which gives us the right to wright about whatever we want. Vonnegut wrote this passage to help early writers understand the basic fundamentals of being a writer and helping people like me understand how to write effectively so that others such as readers will want to read my writings and want to come back and read more next time.