Have you ever wondered when you pick up a book and look at the authors name and you are like how could someone be named that? Well that is not always the case. Sometimes authors will use fake names to cover up their true identity. Why would they do that you may ask. Well there are many reasons but, a few of them may be because they want to have freedom. Others may do it to have flexibility. Then some authors just do it for the opportunity. Do you think you could live as two different identity’s? Or have two different names. Well some authors do and maybe even some you know or read their books because they want to keep their true identity a secret. Why you may ask because wouldn’t you love to see you name on bill boards or have great social …show more content…
Well some authors don’t like that so instead they use a fake identity and a fake name to hide there true identity’s and true names. (Source 1) When authors first set out to write and figure out how they want their career to go they have to think about many things and how they to work threw them. Well in this passage that is what they talk about. Many authors have to decide before they release a book is if they are going to use their real name or a fake name. Like Charlotte Bronte when she had set out to write the novel Jane Eyre. But as she was writing the book Jane Eyre she had been determined to have a main character a lot like herself. But she knew that is she published the book under her true name people would soon figure out that she was a main character. So instead she used a fake name under a different gender as well. To keep her true identity a secret.(Source 2) In this passage Robert Southey is very straight forward. Basically if you are asking to be given advice you have to accept what you get and don’t throw a fit. So Charlotte Bronte had did just that she wrote to Robert Southey who gave her his full and honest opinion and tried to be as kind as he could but in the end the advice that you get is what you