Whitebrooks

Elywn Brooks White

Georgia Lee Tyson

On July 11,1989 a man was born named Elywn Brooks White, who would grow up to capture the interest of children and adults alike through his various writings. Among his contributions to American Literature included essays in the New Yorker, his children books and his standard style for manual writing.
Whites well written essays gently satirize the complexities and difficulties of modern way of life. His essays helped establish one of the nation’s most successful general-interest magazines The New Yorker.   One of his essays “The Ring of Time” written in 1986 expresses how he felt about segregation.
          “Under the bright lights of the finished show, a performer need only reflect the electric candle power that is directed upon him; but in the dark and dirty old training rings and in the makeshift cages, whatever light is generated, whatever excitement, whatever beauty, must come from original sources—from internal fires of professional hunger and delight, from the exuberance and gravity of youth. It is the difference between planetary light and the combustion of stars.”
He also contributed his essay to the Seattle Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer. White was best recognized for his essays and comment pieces.
EB White became the young reader’s unforgettable guides into the world of fiction. White wrote Stuart Little, Charlottes Web and the Trumpet of the Swan. “In these books they explored themes such as loyalty, tolerance, and rural Living.
Stuart Little derived from one of his dreams sleeping on a train. This was White’s first children book he wrote. It was about a young New Yorker who was a shy, pleasant manner of a mouse. Stuart Little is not like any other mouse that we have came in contact with.   He’s a mouse who lives in New York City, but most strangely he was born to a family of humans. Stuart lives with his parents, his brother, and his cat Snowbell. Even though he was a shy and caring mouse, he...