'Lets Go To The Videotape'

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The specific audience I imagine that my paper is aimed at are adults that like short realistic fiction stories. The reason is that the story I am focusing on is “Lets Go to the Videotape”, which is a seven page realistic fiction story, and the other literatures I reference to is about realistic fiction. The literature that I write and relate to has to deal with adult situations, such a single parent in “Lets Go to the Videotape” or “Last Chance” that is about a drug addict dealing with his difficult family. These situations and plots are not suitable for young children, so it must be for an older age group. In addition, why for people that like short realistic fiction stories since majority of these literature works is no longer than 10-15

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