HI!!!!! My
name is Antoinette-Sarah Sirleaf I’m 15 years old, I love to sing, read and
bake. I want to go into criminal justice, I would like to become an FBI solve
crimes and bring people to justice. I like my English class, throughout the year
so far we have read really good books, one of my favorite short story that we
have read is “The Censors” By Luisa Valenzuela. It is a really good short story
it shows that you should be care what you write on paper, you can never know
who read it after you. We are now starting to read a play called “A Doll’s
House”, I’m going to tell you some things about the author Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen was born on March 20,
1828 in Skien, Norway, his full name is Henrik Johan Ibsen. In 1862 he was
exiled to Italy there he wrote the tragedy Brand. Ibsen later moved to Germany
in 1868 where he wrote one of his most famous play “A Doll’s House”. Ibsen
returned to Norway in 1891 has a literary hero.
As a child Henrik showed no sign of
theatrical genius he would become in the future. He grew up in the small
Norwegian coastal town of Skien, the oldest of five children born to Knud and
Marichen Ibsen. His father was a successful merchant and his mother painted,
played piano and loved the theater. When Henrik was 8, his family was thrown into
poverty because of problems with his father’s business. The family moved to a
rundown farm near town, there he spent his time reading, painting and
performing magic tricks. Ibsen moved to Chistiania in 1850 to prepare for
univeristy examinations to study at the University of Christiania, living there
in the capital he made friends with writes and artistic types. Ibsen was
offered a job as a writer and manager for the Norwegian Theater in Bergen.
Henrik got married in 1858 to Suzannah Daae Thoresen, they had one child a son
named Sigurd. Before his married he had a son from a earlier relationship, but
he never met the boy. In 1900, he had series of strokes that left him unable to
write. Ibsen died on May 23, 1906 in Kristianai, Norway. His last words were “To
the contrary!”, he received a state funeral from the Norwegian Government. Even
though Ibsen is gone, his work is performed around the world.
