George Orwell "Why I Write" shows the primary purposes of a writer to write. Starting from his childhood, he demonstrates the idea of diving into background information to understand writers motives. From his childhood, Orwell was introvert; however, he had the ambition of becoming a writer. He believes that to analyze writers motives, one should know some portion of the writer's early development. Orwell believes there are four primary purposes for writing and the fluctuation of each purposes' proportion varies writers. The first purpose is "Sheer egoism." The writer's goal of being remembered after death by targeting bullet ideas. The second is "Aesthetic enthusiasm." In other words, the usage of external words, which perfectly feet the context. The third is "Historical impulse," which stands for presenting everything in its identical view due to save facts for the future generations. The last one is "Political purpose," which follows the target of having an impulse on society by ideas. Moreover, Orwell shows his wish of transforming political writing into an art. He wants this in order to explore the lie and make it public, having the initial concern of being heard. However, he implies that he could not realize his wish as he has aesthetic enthusiasm. So, politicians will consider this as irrelevant, and he will not abandon his pattern of writing. Orwell shows problems raised by importing his aesthetic enthusiasm in political writing. The problems were the questions such as "Why did you put in all that stuff?", as indeed he was making good book journalism.
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