Elif shafak writes, “the literary mind can’t be an isolationist” focusing on the incorporation of varied elements that tosses in the mind of a writer when he sits for writing any literary genre. An individual affects his society in reciprocation affect him and shape as a human he becomes. The environment around us can either propel us into the gorge of slavery or free us from the suppressing ideas and actions propagated and executed through various organic institutions sponsored by organic intellectuals as Antonio Gramsci claims. Perceiving the split world into the hands of Machiavellian people who dominate and break the hopes of thousands, who fill this earth with the waves of fear and fright, she further writes that literature is an art that rekindles hope and resistance among oppressed people and grooms them for raising their issues in front of authorities with bravery and certainty. Literature resurrects their belief that corporatism can be overturned and a new regime can be established. Powerful may own the present but writers own the future. They expose the missutilization of power and make it condemnable throughout history and across the globe.
One way of changing the cruel nature of history is writing about the atrocities that fill it and it works as a penance for all the bygone inhuman deeds. Writing is like a prayer, it stitches the bruises of heart and creates a new organism driven by will to live that not only improvises and alters the past deeds but also prods readers to restrain from such atrocities. It is like the thundering sermons of lord Buddha denouncing any inhuman act and spreading peace and joy everywhere. Good deed always lasts longer than the bad deed like writing lasts longer than speaking. Jacques Derrida held that it is written word that continues give meaning and possess the capability to be interpreted in hundreds of ways according to time and requirements. Wars can’t be compensated except writing about them that works as a penance and suggests people to abstain from them. Only writers capture the devastation of war in true sense and experience it’s atrocious intensity. Writing itself is a war against all wars. It is a war of humanity against humanity, of justice against inequality, of joy against sadness and of life against destruction. We still tremble when we peruse the destruction that transpired in two world wars and it sends shivers down the spine of every war monger knowing it can be easily commenced and hardly stopped or never stopped for that matter.
Voltaire says, “ to hold a pen is to be at war”. In this contemporary age and all other ages since times immemorial, writers have been at war with every inhuman act that happened and disturbed the calm and quietude of humanity. They wrote to stop wars, to overthrow despotic regimes, to return privileges to unprivileged, to guide people on the right path. They defined undefinable human suffering and had mission to bring back joy to humans across the world.
Writing is a protest against loss, to remember and not to forget but not to cling to the past loss but to move forward with the hope and prospects of prosperity. It sustains the determination to recover from irrecoverable and to mitigate the intensity of pain but heightens the intensity of joy to let the burden of existence be light and bearable.
Victor Frankle encountered the harsh treatment in the austwitch but he survived by clinging to hope of release and his reunion with his family. And in his later life he exonerated himself from this traumatic experience by writing. His famous book, “in search of meaning” and “the unconscious God” have been helping millions of people across world to survive in the most brutal human conditions. Writing is something that lifts the load from ones conscience and leads to purgation of disturbing emotions. It has cathartic powers and works as an unimaginable therapy to heal the extremities of history. Literature grows that hope of life, reunion and peace. Writers are important people because they save civilization through their books. “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself” writes Albert Camus to focus on the aim and role of writing. Every writer records the glory of culture and civilization for the upcoming generation so that they don’t get corrupt ideas that bring them under subjugation. They are serious people and watch the world keenly and write to exterminate it's extremities and make it a better world. “A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world” writes Susan Sontag.

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