George Orwell and Joan Didion explain their objectives in their essays both of which are titled “Why I Write.” George Orwell wrote his in 1946 and Didion in 1976. She openly admits that she, “stole that title…from George Orwell,” and in saying so she clearly acknowledges the similarities in both her and Orwell’s writing styles. Both writers portray a desire to write only matter-of-factly, and avoid abstract ideas, and in doing so, they try t