Is It More Important For A Biography To Be Inspiring Or Impartial?

Is it more important for a biography to be inspiring or impartial? Inspiring means to cause great emotional or mental stimulation. There are all kinds of different biographies. There are biographies about incredible people and old, run down building, Beautiful structures and boring or uninteresting people. A biography isn’t always meant to be inspiring and exciting. A lot of times they are just meant for education and to tell about someone's life. Impartial means unbiased or even-handed. This simply means that An author hasn’t left out parts of someone's life just because they didn’t agree with it. On the other hand, a biography can never be truly impartial because the author just can’t include every single minute moment and detail of the subject’s life. …show more content…
Even if the author could include every moment of the subject’s life, his method of presentation and diction inherently affect how the reader will feel about the subject. There is still a scale of more or less impartial, however, and this is very important. “Something Beautiful for God” was written by a Christian man named Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge. When he wrote this book, his goal was to write Mother Teresa’s life story. What she was doing in Calcutta, how and why she became a nun, how she knew that this was her calling. So that is what he wrote about. He penned what she really, truly did, not his opinion of why she should or shouldn't have done it. In his book, Muggeridge spends a very minimal amount of time on Mother Teresa's childhood, however he does not exclude it