U.S.A. Dreams

As a person who has traveled extensively, I can honestly state that every place is unique, having its own sense of freedom. Each place I have been to indeed have very obliging people. There are many places in the world in which the people living there are controlled and do not have a sense of being free to do what they want to do. I have lived in the United States for quite a while, and being a former immigrant myself, I’ve seen that this is a place truly filled with different cultures and people who have the freedom to be themselves. I was only two years old when I emigrated from Ghana to the U.S.A. When I was in preschool, I was very eager to learn how to read, and once I learned, I had a great love for it, but as I grew older, my love for reading developed into a love for writing. I began to have a passion for writing when I was about six years old, but back then my stories weren’t very good to me, but not to my mother, who thought they were great for someone as young as I was.

As I continued to read I felt that I could one day write incredible stories. I had a strong belief that I could write as remarkable as those phenomenal authors did. Thankfully, I’ve been given many opportunities to write. When I was in the sixth grade, my language teacher encouraged me to enter a writing contests, and I wrote a story about my elderly neighbor. I received an extraordinary amount of encouragement from my friends, my family, my classmates, and my teachers. That is what I believe freedom is, being able to pursue whatever interest one has, and getting all the needed support to do that and many more. In my case, instead of being judged, I was encouraged, and I felt proud to write. I was told a few months later that I had won the contests, and that is when my passion for writing became stronger. I began writing more stories and books with the hope that I would get them published. I read other books and used some of their authors’ ways of writing. I admired the way Katheryn Stockett wrote the characters’ point of views in her book The Help. It gave the readers a chance to see exactly how each character lived and felt. When I write I feel like I am the only person in the room. I can express all the things I can’t say or are afraid to say, and I can let my imagination take over.

Being in the United States has given me the independence and the associated freedom to pursue my passion for writing and will surely present that same opportunity to every person living in the United States. Writing allows me to be whoever I want to be, and it allows other people to understand my personality and my emotions without me having to give any description of myself. Freedom, I presume, is a gift given to me, and like freedom, writing is a gift that I am blessed with. Each and every day is a day for me to write something new. Whenever something interesting happens throughout my life, I write about it, and I can use different names to turn it into a realistic fiction story, or I could make the characters different creatures to turn it into a regular fiction story. The time I spend writing is the time for me to relax and just relive my day or have fun and write a frivolous story. I believe that I have progressed in writing because I moved to the U.S.A, and I also believe that moving to this place of freedom was a part of God’s plan for me to find my passion.

About the Author:My name is Doreen Agyin-Birikorang, and I was born in Tema, Ghana, but moved to the U.S.A. with my family due to my father’s new job. I can understand most of the language that my family speaks, but I have trouble speaking it. I have loved writing for a long time, and not only do I hope to be a successful writer when I grow up, but to be as good as one of the greatest writers like Katheryn Stockett or Sue Monk Kidd, who are the authors of my two favorite books, The Help and The Secret Life of Bees.

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