Nonfiction

I remember starting this creative writing class thinking I didn’t have any story to tell or share and wondered how I was going to pass the class, since I knew what I was getting myself into. I actually just hoped for the best. As class progressed and we read Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg book, I was hooked. It was such a magical book. Everytime I opened it, I was transported into a coveted world of writers, full with secrets only writers know and I felt welcomed to know those…

Narrative Nonfiction Michaela DePrince´s complicated, problematic and painful life from war orphan in Sierra Leone to a star ballerina in the United States is a story worth telling. Michealas life in Sierra Leone was devastating. Both of her parents passed away at a very young age, and her cruel uncle took her under his wing but he claimed she was ´unsightly´, so brought her to an orphanage to get rid of her. Things were not any better at the orphanage for Michaela in the beginning, she was…

The Magician Of Auschwitz Book Review The field or genre of The Magician Of Auschwitz is historical nonfiction. The book is historical nonfiction because it is about the horrid concentration camps and World War 2. It is hard to find the genre for The Magician Of Auschwitz since Kathy Kacer had changed Levin’s name and she probably changed some other details too but it is more historical nonfiction than fiction. The point of view in the magician of auschwitz is mostly Werner's but Kathy Kacer…

The Things They Carried is a historical fiction novel that follows Tim O’Brien, who is also the protagonist of the book- and his fellow soldiers in the Alpha Company during the Vietnam war. Tim O’Brien creates a story that gives off the feeling of nonfiction, but is truly fiction. He was also a soldier who was drafted into Vietnam. Some of his stories throughout the book come from real life events. There are many personal connections, and realistic elements in O’Brien’s characters, whether they…

Patti Jefferson, A Children’s Picture and Nonfiction Marketing Workbook Author Patti Jefferson is on both sides of the creative tracks. “I use variations of my real name. My children’s books are written under my whole name so that my initials of PBJ can be used and my current marketing book was written under Patti Jefferson as a slight distinction.” So who is Patti Brassard Jefferson, alias PBJ, aka Patti Jefferson? “I was born in upstate New York in the early 60s. My father was in the US Navy,…

Skill: Infer and Support the Main Idea PILSEN 7th Grade Nonfiction Center for Urban Education ©2007 Pilsen is an old community in Chicago with a long history. This part of Chicago started small and got bigger, as most neighborhoods in the city did. Its cultural history is about moving, changing, and connecting. Many people have moved there over the decades. This movement started when immigrants chose to settle in this part of the city when Chicago was growing rapidly. An immigrant is a person…

more specific sense. Common genres used for the two books are memoir and biography. Although Maus and Persepolis are both graphic novels and can be considered memoirs or biographies, they can be more specifically categorized with the genre creative nonfiction, because of the authors’ use of modern frameworks, round characters, and juxtaposition. Overall, the term graphic novel is not an awful one, both Maus and Persepolis are graphic novels. By the definition in the Encyclopædia Britannica, a…

This style of writing is known as narrative nonfiction. While nonfiction writing presents information about occurrences in chronological order and in a straightforward manner, narrative nonfiction provides a more highly detailed view of a story, perhaps including the thoughts of characters, giving it a “cinematic” quality (BBC Bitesize; Gutkind). The narrative nonfiction writing style is showcased in the following quote, which describes the day that several…

Gang is a nonfiction movie. I was able to locate information on Gridiron gang in order to further understand its purpose on Wikipedia. What was said of the 2006 film “Gridiron Gang” is, “It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season, the very first in which they played eleven man football” (Wikipedia, 2006). Honestly, I don’t really think it’s possible to say which movie presents the storyline more accurately when you line up a fiction and nonfiction…

by Truman Capote is a compelling account of the murders of the Clutter family in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. In this piece Capote attempts to produce a new variety of nonfiction: the nonfiction novel. Critics such as Conrad Knickerbocker praise Capote for his success in creating a cinematic experience within a nonfiction book, whereas others such as Stanley Kauffmann criticize him for an unnecessarily detailed piece about a simple murder. Although both Kauffmann and Knickerbocker have…