Other Than Fiction Analysis

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

“Stranger Than Fiction” presents a great idea, intriguing the audience right off the bat. Harold Crick, an IRS auditor, whose normal life is disrupted when he hears a woman’s voice narrating his life. He goes on trying to figure out what is happening, learning that only he is able to hear this voice, when he learns he is soon to die as said by the voice. Harold visits Professor Jules Hilbert, together they try to figure out what genre Harold is in. When Harold hears the voice of the mysterious women he points out that the women on TV, Kay Eiffel, is the narrator to Hilbert. Discovering this news Hilbert tells Harold that Eiffel writes tragedies and the story always ends with the main character’s death.

The article “Your Brain on Fiction” by Annie Murphy Paul (2012) asserts that reading can motivate the human brain, and even influences on a person’s behaviour, as has been proved by neuroscience. Not only well known parts of the brain, which responsible for written words, engage in the process of reading, and react to it, but also other sections, for instance, one of them relates to the sense of smell. The article provides information about the study that describes the reaction of participant’s brain to different words and their combinations. The words that have a strong connection with the smell or texture metaphors activate the sensory cortex. Moreover, researchers determine the response of the motor cortex by the words that represent movement.

Personally, the book taught me a lot about how people deal with situations when under pressure, people’s need for power and how easy it really if for a war to break out and I found that in my mind I could easily link what was going

From the film one can learn the importance of taking chances and making choices. The film also teaches us about disobedience. Are desobidance puts us at risk, but is important to do what we feel is right. The film also teaches the harsh reality's of war and how it can cause men to do terrible

This book doesn't just make you think about your life in a different way, it makes you think about writing in a different way. There's so many little things in the book that were symbolically important, Art on the first day of school and how she would be working on making a tree different, not just a tree. You began to realize the more Melinda learned and the more Melinda went through, the more she began to understand the tree, the roots, and the dying leaves. There's many things in this book that are symbolically that you might not notice unless you analyze it in your own way.

Subjects of the stories give the general experience to the works. By clearly keeping an eye on the way that teenagers are unaware of the exercises that they are doubtlessly unreasonably inauspicious, making it difficult to be incorporated in the film than the novel. In the book it tells how a young girl, Connie, gets included in things adolescents should not be doing. Wrongdoings can have a total impact over the aftereffect of her life. Connie could have been butchered, ambushed, wound up with a disease or pregnant, the book led you to having your own interpretations.

The author ending with this “full circle” theme is efficient because she shows character development even through a short

The book in my opinion gives more details than what the movies provides with. The movie tends to change to things up from the book and only gives a scan through some diaries. The book on the hand is filled with details, the readers get to know these writers and understand what they've been through. Each diary entry has its own specific story to tell. We get to know more of Ms.G and the Freedom writer's personal life outside the classroom. I can agree that the both the book and movie are inspiring because they both included specific events that someone can relate to.

When she comes to a final decision about Harold’s death, which would make an incredible ending to her book, she is unable to be selfish and decides to change the ending so that Harold can

Throughout the book the sow’s head symbolizes a lot of things about life on the island. The young boys living on the island experience a lot about themselves and others around them. They were very civilized in the beginning of the book but turned savage throughout the end by killing some of the other boys.

To be completely honest I had a really hard time understanding the full meaning of the film. Once we stated talking as a class I started putting the pieces together and understanding why different scenes were the way they were. During the class discussion someone mentioned that the

"The book is an amazing book. The writer really did a greater work by picturing d event that happened in the story to reader. It was a greater experience reading all through the book. The kidnapping of Sam and the threatening of his wife (Rechel) was a great tense in the book. Even though thinks his trials are over, but since Saving Rachel is only halfway over at this point, we know that Sam’s suffering has just begun. The book’s second half shifts viewpoint and piles on the plot twists, providing alternative explanations for everything Sam has experienced.

Creative non-fiction comes in all types of forms and styles; the only difference is that it used for entertainment while staying true to the facts. Creative non-fiction follows the lines of telling a factual event in a very creative manner; whether it is using dialogue, description or the format that it comes in. Television shows however, have a different approach in them when it comes to telling the information. The TV show that I chose as representing creative non-fiction was Law and Order. This TV show includes everything that makes a something nonfiction. It includes Journalist ideas, which would be considered the facts of the story, it has dramatization and it sometimes have a lesson learned or a social problem that needs

Just like movies people tend to read fictional books to escape from their reality which is why I believe fictional books are better than non fiction. Always Running, by Luis J. Rodriguez, is a nonfiction, autobiographical novel about Rodriguez’s life. In it, the author describes growing up and regretting his childhood mistakes, like when he was told to kill someone for a gang initiation. Rodriguez describes how he would like to prevent his mistakes to happen to other people. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a fictional novel about children that become stranded on an island and have to survive showing their struggles on the island making the book more interesting. Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a fictional play about two young lovers whose love ends a feud between rivaling families which makes this book more better than a nonfiction book because these types of scenarios would not happen in a real life situations. Fiction books can provide a more interesting story line than compared to a nonfiction books.