“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” This is an interesting sentence by E. M. Forster. Take the example from Mr. McCool today in class. If there’s a new student in British literature, how can we analyze this student’s level or intellect? There’s few ways to obtain his/her level. A teacher usually will give a test or an oral quiz in order to acknowledge this student’s level. Thus, this is exactly what the quotation means. There is no way for us to understand what we really know until we have actual evidences to prove it.
For the second question, I do believe that writing can help me clarify and understand our own thoughts. The reason is that writing our thoughts on the paper actually makes us review and rethink again what we thought originally. In order words, thinking in our minds or brains is still not enough to complete the whole thinking process. The last step before completion is to put your thoughts in to actual words or forms. For example, before Americans became independent. They already have the thoughts, which they wanted to be an independent nation. However, besides the conflict with British government, they need to complete one more thing before they reach their goals. They needed to create the Declaration of Independence, and this is not only want they did in the history, but also this is how they became independent successfully.
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