Examples+of+professional+writers+personifying+objects

Yes--professionals actually give human traits to non-human things  and earn a living doing it!!!

A recent YouTube Sensation is MARCEL the SHELL! Watch and see his personality come through. See how the creator/writer uses real detials related to his size and appearance to build ideas about what traits he'd have, how he would act, what his daily conflicts and problems might involve...

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[|Click on this to get background information on how Marcel was "born."]
2 poems giving life to the humble onion ...a relative of our friendly gourds

[|Text of "The Traveling Onion"]

[|"Ode to an Onion" and other food poems]

ESSAYS also use objects as characters to explore.... Andy Rooney made a very good living writing essays about everyday objects and reading them on "60 Minutes." He got his start by telling his boss he should be allowed to do a little opinion segment at the end of broadcasts. When his boss asked what topics he might write about, he looked around the office and said, "doors...." He went on to actually write about doors, and chairs, and the cotton in pill bottles and lots of mundane objects, proving that a talented writer can make ANYTHING interesting. He passed away a very wealthy man.

[|Andy Rooney on "Wastebaskets"]