Week 8

What does Morris and tombstones contribute to our understanding of
everyday writing?

Morris describes cemeteries as ironic places where life and death clash.  One one hand there a cemetery is a place of death because dead people are buried there.  Also people do not enjoy visiting cemeteries because they are so grim and bleak.  On the other hand  cemeteries are covered in grass, trees flowers and people dead and alive.  People bring the dead flowers in honor of the fallen person.  People do this in order to represent life in something or someone which has none in it.  Morris and tombstone's texts are everyday writing because they are not institutionalized and are makeshift.  Also they contribute the fact that they serve a purpose to spread the word of information or other forms of text.  Cemeteries are the most permanent form of Everyday Writing.  Cemeteries last hundreds of years they last threw wars, famines, natural disasters and everything else that happens on earth. Tombstones display the very most important things about a person. I say this because they are the words that describe who you were when you were alive for all future generations to see.  A tombstone is essentially ones last words that will be remembered for ever.