Truth the truth : the real facts about something : the things that are true. The quality or state of being true; a statement or idea that is true or accepted as true (Merriam-Webster). Truth is a factor in life that can be played with when a writer creates a story. It can often be altered when a person changes during and after an event. For every thought that ever entered an writer's mind is a consequence of their struggle to reach out for the truth from a traumatizing event. Some of the ways to approach the “truth” are through facts or fiction from expressing oneself. Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness explores literature of fact. While, Timothy Garton Ash “On the Frontier”, explores the difference
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Ash explains that truth is something that can change. That there is no concrete line for the truth. The truth of a story or event can be facts or opinion. That sometimes a truth can be Ash bring up the fact that there is frontier between the literature of fact and the literature of fiction. Ash compares throughout the passages of his article different books that proves his point about witness literature can be a blend between facts and imagination. That some authors tend to make a situation seem less harmful by altering the truth. Ash believes that there is a difference between fact and fiction. The difference between fact and fiction is literature is whether or not the author is truthful in evidence. Ash believes there is a frontier or a border that some authors cross between what is real and what is not. Some authors confuse the reader by leading the reader to believe the characters were witness then reveal later the characters are fiction. In, “On the Frontier” Ash mentions an writer named George Orwell, whose work of literature Homage to Catalonia is “externally verifiable facts wrong” that the writers work if filled with wrong facts, since some of the original work was stolen during a secret police search in Barcelona.The author pleas for veracity at the end of his book. The veracity is a truth test that helps the reader know if the writer is giving facts or fiction in
Ash explains that truth is something that can change. That there is no concrete line for the truth. The truth of a story or event can be facts or opinion. That sometimes a truth can be Ash bring up the fact that there is frontier between the literature of fact and the literature of fiction. Ash compares throughout the passages of his article different books that proves his point about witness literature can be a blend between facts and imagination. That some authors tend to make a situation seem less harmful by altering the truth. Ash believes that there is a difference between fact and fiction. The difference between fact and fiction is literature is whether or not the author is truthful in evidence. Ash believes there is a frontier or a border that some authors cross between what is real and what is not. Some authors confuse the reader by leading the reader to believe the characters were witness then reveal later the characters are fiction. In, “On the Frontier” Ash mentions an writer named George Orwell, whose work of literature Homage to Catalonia is “externally verifiable facts wrong” that the writers work if filled with wrong facts, since some of the original work was stolen during a secret police search in Barcelona.The author pleas for veracity at the end of his book. The veracity is a truth test that helps the reader know if the writer is giving facts or fiction in