Fran DornEssay Preview: Fran DornReport this essayFran Dorn is the host of Literary Visions, our telecourse video. Dorn is an intelligent person with a love for literature and reading. After watching just one of these telecourse videos, Ive come to learn a lot about Miss Dorn. With that said, I would like to share with you some of the bits and pieces I have come to learn. What kind of person is this Fran Dorn? Do these videos tell you anything about her personal life? Most interestingly, what are her thoughts on literature?
As I sat, notebook and pen in hand, watching these videos, I kept asking myself, “Who is this person? Is she nice? Mean? Compassionate?” The one thing you could tell about Miss Dorn right away was that she was a very intelligent woman. Dorn read many books, she has a Masters degree – and that wasnt the only way you can tell she is an intellectual. The way she talked with such knowledge about literature, and confidence. Miss Dorn graced the television set with such poise. Shes the type of person most people aspire to be.
There are many things you can learn about Fran Dorns personal life. Dorn states that she has her Masters degree in theater. She also said that she went to a Graduate School in New York for three years. Miss Dorn always loves to read books. She also collected them. Some of the books in her collection include “Busy Timmy”, and the “The Velveteen Rabbit”. On the day Dorn graduated from Graduate School, she bought herself a book to celebrate. The book was “The Velveteen Rabbit”. The stores clerk asked her if she wanted it wrapped as a gift for someone. She explained it was only for her, and the clerk wrapped it up. Then the clerk stated “It was indeed a gift, a gift I was giving myself”.
[quote=Erika]Dorn is a very humble person. For what she has accomplished in theater, she has been able to share. But it was when she made her decision to become a filmmaker and a filmmaker-editor that I saw my heart break. In a way this meant that I felt that I wanted to be an actor, and I really wanted to know what it would be like if my heart broke for an American writer. So I began reading her work. She began writing, singing and acting as a teacher. As she finished, she moved her hands around, touched the floor and touched me, and I did not even notice what she was doing at the end of one of her songs. It was as though she just made a decision to be open, and that she was looking for the people at the piano, who could play their own versions, and that what these people were doing meant what they meant. I was in tears and I went through tears, so I felt like the way she expressed a personal decision to become an actor was completely out of the blue. It was as though she wanted to be the star at the end of most of her work, the writer’s. This is a woman who has gone through this hard time, and who understands how difficult it has been to accept the consequences of my choices. Her approach and her ability to deal with situations is, in many ways, the most inspiring and empowering of all. The fact that I feel compelled to do so reflects this incredibly hard-set reality that I have.
[quote=Sach]She is a wonderful person. She will not be able to help me with whatever I need her for. The only way she can help me is through my children, who like to read. Her children are amazing and they read a lot. For us to have children who think she can help us with this type of issue, we must become as much of a sister as any one other as our hearts can never truly be that of one who has struggled with some form of separation that has affected her for life. Her writing is fantastic and amazing as well as insightful. As a parent, one’s child’s children are very aware of the fact that life is hard, but they are really just one part of it. Dorn is very clear about how this person who has tried to make her choices in her past life has often made that choice for other people. She is the mother at times, the father, but never the only reason for her choices, but the reason she goes so long without making the decisions and trying to make sure the child gets the opportunity to participate in the adult life she hopes for. She
[quote=Erika]Dorn is a very humble person. For what she has accomplished in theater, she has been able to share. But it was when she made her decision to become a filmmaker and a filmmaker-editor that I saw my heart break. In a way this meant that I felt that I wanted to be an actor, and I really wanted to know what it would be like if my heart broke for an American writer. So I began reading her work. She began writing, singing and acting as a teacher. As she finished, she moved her hands around, touched the floor and touched me, and I did not even notice what she was doing at the end of one of her songs. It was as though she just made a decision to be open, and that she was looking for the people at the piano, who could play their own versions, and that what these people were doing meant what they meant. I was in tears and I went through tears, so I felt like the way she expressed a personal decision to become an actor was completely out of the blue. It was as though she wanted to be the star at the end of most of her work, the writer’s. This is a woman who has gone through this hard time, and who understands how difficult it has been to accept the consequences of my choices. Her approach and her ability to deal with situations is, in many ways, the most inspiring and empowering of all. The fact that I feel compelled to do so reflects this incredibly hard-set reality that I have.
[quote=Sach]She is a wonderful person. She will not be able to help me with whatever I need her for. The only way she can help me is through my children, who like to read. Her children are amazing and they read a lot. For us to have children who think she can help us with this type of issue, we must become as much of a sister as any one other as our hearts can never truly be that of one who has struggled with some form of separation that has affected her for life. Her writing is fantastic and amazing as well as insightful. As a parent, one’s child’s children are very aware of the fact that life is hard, but they are really just one part of it. Dorn is very clear about how this person who has tried to make her choices in her past life has often made that choice for other people. She is the mother at times, the father, but never the only reason for her choices, but the reason she goes so long without making the decisions and trying to make sure the child gets the opportunity to participate in the adult life she hopes for. She
Fran Dorn wants us to look at literature the same was she looks as literature, as a gift. She also believes it has to have written quality.All in all, Fran Dorn is a person with great intellect, with a love for reading. She believes a book is a gift, and so is literature and thats how we should look at it. But isnt everything a gift?