Compare And Contrast Fiction And Nonfiction

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Nonfiction versus fiction is very different for me. Fiction stories are usually intriguing, filled with suspense and drama. They always have an unexpected twist that keeps you wanting more. With nonfiction, the stories are about personal experiences and not always as exciting as a fictional story. If the nonfiction story is not correctly written, the story becomes very boring. For this assignment, I chose Joan Didion’s On Going Home and Langston Hughes’ Salvation. The two stories had an area which I was able to relate to on a personal level.
Salvation depends on Langston Hughes when he was a young. His transforming from a kid to a young fellow and the failure connected with that change. He depicts the days, paving the way to his visit to the congregation his Auntie Reed goes to where he supposes he is going to really observe Jesus and afterward portrays the
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Not where she dwells with her better half and kid, however, her adolescence home. It is about the battle to separate between the two and how the home has changed. Didion depicts the setting of where her youth home is. Secured in clean, as her better half calls attention to, overflowing with mementos that have no financial esteem and the outside surroundings she recalls as a youngster. She depicts the family graveyard, where those before her are kept. It makes me think about whether she is worried that she won 't be covered nearby her relatives since she is so far away and the circumstances are different to such an extent. The change can be seen by her portrayal of how they burial ground had been vandalized and her mom 's acknowledgment of what had happened. She utilizes air to depict her emotions about her environment and her family associations. The easy way she can converse with her mom, sibling, close relatives, and even representatives of her dad 's homestead. She can stroll through her family 's home and scrounge through

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