Thursday, February 6, 2014

blog #8

Non-Fiction vs Fiction

1.       A book has to be 100% percent true in the author’s and factual perspective. If the book has any made up elements or added parts then it should be automatically classified as a fiction based on a true story. Seth Greenland made a good point saying, “Were living in this era where people think truth is malleable… we can’t agree what reality is.” People think they can fix the truth about themselves molding themselves into hero’s or victims of a hard or exciting life that people want to hear when it’s a bunch of made up stuff to create this fictions persona of themself.

2.       Half true stories are okay, but the reader has the right to know that the entire story isn’t true. So to call a half true story a memoir is lying to the audience. The term for these kind of books are based on a true story so the reader knows things are dramatized and personified.

3.       We need lines in genre because when a memoir is true we want to be able to share a person’s success and accomplishments or point of view and give them proper credit and achievement recognition for it. While a good story is a good story a readers should judge them for being classified as either one. Labeling shouldn’t restrict the success of the book.

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