In my paper I talked about Anne Frank and Neil Peart. Two completely different people living in two different times. They both have experienced loss and they both wrote about it. As a filmmaker, I write scripts and stories of my own, but it was only possible through reading other scripts and watching other peoples movies and stories. First a writer must sit back and "Listen" to a story or several stories before he/she can gain a story voice. Just as Matilda did in the novel Mister Pip, She found her voice and wrote her story. Mr. Watts helped her find the storyteller in her by reading her the story of Great Expectations. Mr. Watts showed Matilda the power of the story and the power of reading stories and hearing stories. That was Mr. Watt's legacy to Matilda and that is the legacy many authors give to us through books. They teaching us about their stories, but also we can learn to tell our own stories through others.