Realist Fiction As Realistic Fiction

In my opinion this book is very realistic because it provides us with everyday challenges that we face in our own lives. Not only does it provide us with everyday challenges that we face,but the

I read the realistic fiction novel Reality Check by Peter Abrahams for my book talk assignment.

Sometimes we have to look beyond what we see on the outside to understand something more deeply. In the short story Cathedral By Raymond Carver, the narrator has an attitude of being selfish, and jealous through the story. The narrator’s wife invites a blind man, Robert, to come stay in their house for a short time while the man visits family members of his own wife who recently passed. The narrator is not enthusiastic because blind people make the narrator uncomfortable, mainly because the narrator has no real experience with the blind. In addition, to his uneasiness with the blind the narrator is uncomfortable with the relationship his wife and the blind man have. The wife and Robert, the blind man, have maintained a close

In the narrative, the author writes the story in first person point of view through an unnamed narrator which enables the reader to visualize, experience, and perceive a deeper insight into his mind. The story commences with the narrator speaking directly to the audience appearing closed-off and narrow-minded. His wife has an old friend named Robert, who happens to be blind, coming to spend the night. Right away, the reader can sense how the narrator comes off as self-absorbed. He`s only concerned about how Robert’s visit will affect him and is inconsiderate about the strong bond Robert and his wife have built over the years. The narrator also lacks self-awareness when he found himself thinking “what a pitiful life this woman must have led.” (Carver 3) The woman being Beulah, Robert`s recently deceased wife, who the narrator belittled as she married a blind man and now she “could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one.” (Carver 3) Not realizing that with

Another way Red Kayak is an example of realistic fiction is because of its authentic characters. An authentic character in Red Kayak is Digger. Something that support this is on page 107. Brady accuses

All books are classified by genre. Red Kayak is considered as realistic fiction because it has things like real settings in the story. Considering plot events in Red Kayak there is death, hiding from consequences, and the main character’s friends going to a camp where they just work for nine months. This could happen in real life making it realistic fiction. Other than that there is believable dialogue, true-to-life themes, and again real settings.

fictionalized, but when you look further into the story you will find that it has a much deeper and

the characters in the novel are based on real people. The main characters involved in this book

When one thinks of a novel, a word that usually will come to mind is fiction. In fact, other meanings for the word novel are new and unique. Although an author may use real places, real time, or base their story on real events in part, their outcome is essentially a creation. We, as readers, are in a sense captive to the writer's imagination and must conform to the rules of the worlds they create.

“In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can revenge” (Picoult). Those words are of the opening lines of Jodi Picoult’s best seller, Nineteen Minutes. Although this novel is heart wrenching, and cuts into the ‘grays’ of school shootings, it is anything but original. Lead character, Peter Houghton, is an almost perfect profile replication of 1999’s Columbine shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. A simple personaltiy analysis will reveal that both Peter and Columbine Shooters suffer from parental neglect, the violent virtual world, ruthless peers, as well as easy access to weapons.

Realism can be defined as view in which the author tries to depict life as truthfully and accurately as possible. The use of realistic or lifelike settings described by the author or narrated by a character, add a layer of realism to the story, even if the story itself is fictitious. The characters themselves are often portrayed as believable as possible, to the point that the character being described could actually exist; they are often depicted as very average people, void of extreme wealth, influence, or astounding abilities. The reason characters and settings are often

From a different angle, the narrator is stuck solely in the world of appearance which is repressed by the television in the story. Also, he seems emphatic and has a very superficial concept of relationships. For example, the narrator states that the blind man’s relationship with his now deceased wife, was “beyond his understanding”, he sums up the relationship by stating “They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together, had sex, sure, and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned women looked like.” In short, this comes to show that the narrator care too much about how a person looks or how other people look, about what you say and do and what other people say and do. All things considered, the narrator feels very little compassion over the blind man, he feels as though he can see right through him, based on what he has seen on the television and the things he had heard, without attempting to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Red Kayak is an example of a realistic fiction because it has believable dialogue and a real setting. One Reason it is a good example of realistic fiction. One reason is because it has credible events. A credible event is that “Ben died”.

“After all this time, I still ask myself: Was it my fault? Maybe. Maybe not.” In Red Kayak some major plot events are when Ben dies. Major plot events in Red Kayak are when Ben dies, and Brady finds his dad's dill in the DiAngelos’ house. Another plot event is when Brady finds out Digger drilled holes on the kayak. And lastly, when Brady, J.T and Digger to court, and Brady strugglings internally. Realistic Fiction is a genre consisting of stories that could actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people. Stories that are classified as realistic fiction have plots that highlight social or personal events or issues that mirror contemporary life such as falling in life, marriage, divorce, a loss, death etc. they depict our world and or society.

Do you know what makes a story realistic fiction? Red Kayak is a book about a kid that witnesses a kayak accident… but was it an accident? Realistic fiction is a story that has events, people, or dialogue that could be real. Red Kayak has many examples of realistic fiction like credible events and authentic characters. One reason Red Kayak is a good example or realistic fiction is because it has realistic settings.