The Screenwriter's Tals Response

In this essay Jennifer Lawler is telling her audience not to listen to other people. She explains how people look down on her for writing novels and screenplays and how she has to hide it while she is going to graduate school. She tells her audience her experience telling her professor that she was writing a screenplay. He told her not to, but she continued to do it anyways. Her purpose is to explain to the audience that having more then one literacy that you are passionate about is not a bad thing. You should never let other people influence your writing or your love for something. The literacy she is defining for herself is story telling. She loves story telling and she turns her everyday life into a story.  She pictures her life in the medieval times and makes up stories in her head. The connection to a larger issue is being told what to do. People are constantly telling her that she is wrong for loving to write and be a storyteller. She is unable to tell the people at graduate school of her writing because she knows that it will not be accepted.