Reaction on Ben Okri’s essays
...ere are certain things like faith, religion and God, which no one can decipher, but are just simply accepted. The portion dealing on creativity is too idealistic, probably because I am not creative enough. I am one of those whose writing is, as Okri describes, forceful and stiff. For me, not all people are artists who simply play and mess around and suddenly produce an art, although there are some gifted ones. The last portion reveals that Okri’s article is somewhat an advertisement for us, Newton’s children, to discover literary possibilities; it tickles the mind to search for the genius already inherent within us. The other essay, The Joys of Storytelling, discusses several insights like Okri’s aspiration for the rebirth of storytelling, his admiration for the storytellers, the collaboration of writers and readers to create stories and the analogy between stories and life itself. Okri in this essay is percieved to be very utopian, particularly when he mentioned about his dream of a universal golden age. Most readers would certainly oppose some of his beliefs; they would find his visions difficult to accomplish. But come to think of it, great changes and achievements were made during the early ages, so there is a possibility that we can do what our ancestors did in the past. Okri distinctively showed his appreciation for storytelling in the middle portion of the article. But I would disagree with the passage, “When great storyteller...