Week 3 Journal

According to my understanding, there is a special permission to the people who are residing near or on the Shenandoah National Park, which is to take whatever is on or in the houses in the park as long as the houses were empty, and the letters from the people are mostly either showing gratitude for the permission or asking permission to defend their honor as Powell describes. They did not want the park officials to misunderstand them as thieves and mistreat them as such, when in fact they had a special permission to do what they were doing. In defense to their honor, they wrote to whomever they thought were responsible for the park, either the chief of the officials, Mr. Haskins, or Mr. J. R. Lassiter, asking permission when they didn’t want confusion on who gets what in the house, or letting the park officials to know that there were some shady people who were trying to disrupt the peace by making and selling whiskeys. This action of writing letters to the park officials make them writers, as I consider the fundamental definition of writer being the one who performs action, writing. As long as that person is writing, even if that piece of writing is grammatically wrong (which is the case for the most of the letters by the people from the park), the person is considered as a writer, to my standard. I remember that there is a South Korean writer who has written a book in which only chat language was used for the entire book. It may not be considered as a proper literature, but it is still a piece of writing.