What Is Real By Alice Munro Analysis

The essay “What is Real,” Alice Munro discusses a question that she hears frequently from people in her hometown who believe that they seem real elements of the world that they recognize in her fictional stories, and are bothered by how those real elements seem bastardized or perverted by her seemingly intentional misrepresentation of them. She hopes that in answering this question, she might be able to help people understand what fiction is, how it works, and where it comes from. Firstly, Munro points out that the soul of a story is a kind of “indescribable feeling”, which is like a metaphorical house she wants to build, she says that house could connect different enclosed spaces in order she could settle anywhere on it. It is like an essay …show more content…
The big chunk of reality is the initial story source and fundamental form to set up the soul of stories. The majority of writers usually will make some correction and invention with a real element of the world. Munro uses reality in a way that “put in something true and then go[es] on and tell[s] lies”, which is her goal in her writing and a method she uses to enclose the soul of her story. As a result, readers interest and bewilder those unreal elements, which make them feel more real and depressing. There is a very interesting phenomenon shows up: the unreal stories make us feel more real, because the unreal stories also base on the real story, and then the writer uses their skill to develop an unreal element natural and fluent. In the fictional world, we can’t distinguish the real and unreal element. In the real world, can you differentiate what is unreal facts surrounding …show more content…
Most of the time, we merely follow the subconscious mind of thinking, which actually is the secular logic and conventional morality. When Broyard tried to help his friend named Jules out of committing suicide, he gave a very “good” persuasive expression. He asked Jules: “How can you not be curious about [the world]”, and then listed amount of things that Jules could do to show the world is still fancy. Jules did not think he was telling a truth due to he still committed suicide. Nevertheless, Broyard seems to do not believe either due to he asks himself is he telling Jules the truth, and then he replays it: “I don’t know whether I believed what I said or not, because I just went on behaving like everybody else.” Indeed, he just wants to like a normal person and says some regular rules of the word. A person always afraid to break out the regularity cause it has too much instability and sounds unreal for most people. I don’t mean the conventional theories are wrong, and I just claim it is not yours since you don’t understand those theories deeply because you don’t have any experience with it. How Broyard to convince a person, when he even does not believe the words he has said? At last, does Broyard telling Jules the real? It is unreal when he is taking with Jules. However, it is real after he has cancer cause he has desire and curiosity about the world. We should have own opinions and not drift with the