“I began to think what a wonderful childhood I had had. How I had seen the whole frontier, the woods, and the Indian country of the great plains …” (Laura Ingalls Wilder) Laura Ingalls Wilder is best known for her “Little House on the Prairie” series and for her contribution to children’s literature. There were several things that factored into shaping Wilder as a writer a major one being her personal experience of growing up on the frontier with her family. It was not until later in her life that she wrote the series and the series had gotten published. Over the following years of its publication her books have made it on library and school reading lists as well as been awarded. In American literature Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of the most …show more content…
As mentioned above it was the publishing house that told Laura to edit her journal memoirs as a narrative and this led to her creating a her own style of writing. She wrote in a realistic, detailed and descriptive way about everyday life she used words that appealed to the five senses to draw in the audience and give insight to how people lived during this time period in American History. Here is an example of Wilders first person narrative style that can be seen in this following lines from here book “Little House in the Big Woods,” as Wilder describes a cozy evening at home with her family. “But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa’s fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods. She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the firelight gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. She looked at Ma, gently rocking and knitting. She thought to herself, “This is now.” She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now”. Wilder uses word that create a picture for the reader to imagine without making it sound excessive or complex for the reader. Each moment is described with precise details that inspire readers to use their imagine nation to picture an image. It can invoke readers to think about their own cherished memories with their family and explains why people find Wilders books so charming and makes her an influential author in American