Storylines Against The Truth
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness,” Charles Darwin once said. This quote highlights the importance of learning anything in a proper manner and how false facts have no foundation and are not necessary. Darwin expresses how learning should be done through hard and true facts and not by facts that are bended. Just like how informational text is better for history as it is more factual than literature. Showing that learning history through literature differs from learning history through informational text because of the difference …show more content…
Artistic License gives artists the ability to bend facts and portray “false” information in their artwork. One artwork where artistic license is used is the painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” The painting expresses the hardship of George Washington crossing the Delaware River with a proud and confident stance, on a huge boat with a flag and horses. In addition, the painting has the boat surrounded by colossal pieces of ice (Leutze). Through this painting, the reader interprets the event in a wrong way. In reality, there wa no flag or horses on the boat, and the boat was of a much different size. Since the painting is a piece of literature, the artist used artistic license, which exhibits the event in a wrong manner. On the contrary, informational text is only made up of facts. Unlike literature, informational text is solely used for useful and correct information. Abraham Lincoln claims in his Gettysburg Address, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” This speech is an excellent example of an informational text. It shows Abraham Lincoln’s reasons for the preserving of a specific piece of land. Additionally, these are facts as it was said by an important person at that time and who still impacts the country today. All in all, informational text uses facts, whereas, literature does
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness,” Charles Darwin once said. This quote highlights the importance of learning anything in a proper manner and how false facts have no foundation and are not necessary. Darwin expresses how learning should be done through hard and true facts and not by facts that are bended. Just like how informational text is better for history as it is more factual than literature. Showing that learning history through literature differs from learning history through informational text because of the difference …show more content…
Artistic License gives artists the ability to bend facts and portray “false” information in their artwork. One artwork where artistic license is used is the painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” The painting expresses the hardship of George Washington crossing the Delaware River with a proud and confident stance, on a huge boat with a flag and horses. In addition, the painting has the boat surrounded by colossal pieces of ice (Leutze). Through this painting, the reader interprets the event in a wrong way. In reality, there wa no flag or horses on the boat, and the boat was of a much different size. Since the painting is a piece of literature, the artist used artistic license, which exhibits the event in a wrong manner. On the contrary, informational text is only made up of facts. Unlike literature, informational text is solely used for useful and correct information. Abraham Lincoln claims in his Gettysburg Address, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” This speech is an excellent example of an informational text. It shows Abraham Lincoln’s reasons for the preserving of a specific piece of land. Additionally, these are facts as it was said by an important person at that time and who still impacts the country today. All in all, informational text uses facts, whereas, literature does