Thursday, February 13, 2014

Post 8: Truth in memoir

The truth in a memoir should be mainly true in my opinion. Little lies are okay and some truth stretching to. That’s normal because well in marketing to sell your book it should be truthful but interesting as well to grab people attention. So that’s accepted, though straight out lying about your life of living in a gang and doing drugs is taking it too far. A memoir should be filled with truth and little bits of I wish this actually happen but it didn’t really. Though we should have labels to tell between fiction and non-fiction the reason being is that if a little kid goes and gets a book. One book is about slaying a dragon and another on how to bake a cake. No labels to saying that no in real life you can’t slay a dragon, but the kid will believe that dragons are real as cake. So labels are important in that sense, though in real life sometimes we play our “fiction” life. The reason for me saying this is that people love the life of a gang, but really the smart kid who doesn’t talk. Or the popular girl who everyone thinks is dumb, is really a genius and going to Harvard. Then they live their “non-fiction” life sometimes the fantasy world and reality do merge. So in reality we are living in a memoir

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