how do you write about "how did the author's environment affect what he/she wrote?"?

[xchipmunkx]

give an example using a book, so it can help me to answer this question with my book. thank u.

[Peter]

A good example to use is 1984, which was written in 1948-49. Wells was in post WWII Britain and he was concerned about the rise of socialism and the increasing control by the government through ministries. So he flipped 48 into 84 to predict where the government was going and how they used war as a means to gain control over free speech and many other freesdoms and "modernizations." War had given the government many new powers so "WAR IS PEACE" and other oxymoronic phrases became a major theme of the book.

Similarly the Lord of the Rings series was written by Tolkien around the time of the First World War. There are many allegories in the book comparing various races and people to people within Great Britain and the hobbits being view as simple country folk who are pressed into the great war of their age. An allegory is basically a story which parallels something that is real but can be understood in a different way.

So you need to find out what was going on at the time that a particular book was written and find out how it is reflected in the book. Of course how it affected the writer is pretty speculative.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged would work, as would many books by HG Wells...