Nonfiction

The genre of this book is nonfiction/ biography because Misty is talking about things that happened in her life in the book. Narrator’s point of view in this book is first person. For example, “ I didn’t bother to put on pajamas, I lay where I was and fell asleep, knowing that I’d…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter is a nonfiction novel that recounts the tale of a young woman in the puritan town of Boston who is jailed forced to wear the letter A. This it to label her as an adulteress and shame her for her sin, despite her husband being presumed dead. Of course the scarlet letter was also a symbol used deter those who would dare commit the same sin as her. Puritan religion ruled over the people of colonial America and sinners were treated as criminals by their…

In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien breaks down the border between fact and fiction as he articulates a credible collection of war stories. O’Brien takes the unique role in the novel as an imaginary character created from a blend of real and fabricated elements, but he still makes sure to elucidate that the novel is merely a work of his imagination. Nevertheless, this style of autobiographical fiction forces readers to question the fictional nature of the novel. O’Brien himself…

In his well-known article “Fiction and Non-fiction”, Kendall Walton introduces his theory of fiction as a game of make believe, in which representational art can be presumed as props that impose specific imaginings. Furthermore, Walton’s 1978 paper “Fearing Fictionally” addresses the paradox of fiction i.e. how can we be moved by things that do not exist in the case of fiction? The following paper will critically assess how Walton’s position in ‘Fearing Fictionally’ is related to his argument in…

I am a fan of reading and writing, I read in my free time and like to write. However as I’ve begun to take harder classes, gotten a job and been playing tennis, my free time has decreased and I haven’t written or read much. In previous years, including last year, I have written poems, short stories and read entire serieses in my free time. This may make it seem as though english should be my favorite subject but it is not. I like literacy, not english class, we do to much strict structure…

given African-Americans hope for many centuries to come. Works Cited Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1960. Thomason, Elizabeth. Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works. Detroit: Gale Group,…

Kasia Szpakowska’s book takes a look at what the life of a middle-class inhabitant of the settlement of Hetep-Senusret, better known as Lahun, would be like in the Late Middle Kingdom. Although this book is a nonfiction informative text, Szpakowska uses a fictional family constructed out of what were once real people as a model to recreate the daily life of an Egyptian living in ancient times. Szpakowska focuses on the character of a young girl named Hedjerit, who serves as a virtual example of…

(2017). Text is defined as the original wording of anything printed or written (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2017). Therefore, informational text is a smaller category within the genre of nonfiction writing. The main purpose of informational text is to provide factual knowledge to the reader about nature or society. Comprehension is an individual’s ability to understand something (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2017). Furthermore, it will be…

absolute hell. Two completely different families separated and forced to work in unbelievably harsh conditions. Even though Lina and Elie were stuck with a horrendous fate, they somehow manage to survive. Between Shades of Gray and Night are nonfiction books, told in the first person. Night is told by the author himself, Elie Wiesel. The books are told by people that are personally touched by the holocaust. Teenage boy Elie and Lina are very outgoing people. Lina is a very artistic young…

everything was better. Throughout the book, the readers start to dislike the pigs because they realize that they are taking everything away from the other animals. This would be harder for the readers to feel these kinds of emotions when reading a nonfiction book or text about the Russian…