As discussed before, memory is a finicky process that skews facts and adjusts particulars and is taken only in one context or point of view. Even so, the ‘facts’ of these accounts are not nearly as important as truth behind a writer’s interpretation of events and the role of the writer and their community. Knowing a person’s point of view can help us better understand their actions and that of a nation. Events do not offer meanings. It is what is felt during them that does and the connections that people make with them after they occur. What makes a diary authentic is its interpretive magnitude instead of its ‘factuality’. In conclusion, literary testimony should not be scrutinized for its accuracy, but rather to determine how the experience of the author was
As discussed before, memory is a finicky process that skews facts and adjusts particulars and is taken only in one context or point of view. Even so, the ‘facts’ of these accounts are not nearly as important as truth behind a writer’s interpretation of events and the role of the writer and their community. Knowing a person’s point of view can help us better understand their actions and that of a nation. Events do not offer meanings. It is what is felt during them that does and the connections that people make with them after they occur. What makes a diary authentic is its interpretive magnitude instead of its ‘factuality’. In conclusion, literary testimony should not be scrutinized for its accuracy, but rather to determine how the experience of the author was