The Force of Fiction
Nov. 22 Issue
Table Of Contents Pg. 2 Letter from the Editor Pg. 3 The Console Wars
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Pg. 4 Star Wars Returns Pg. 5 Once Upon A Times
Pg. 5-6 Henry Pg. 7 John Pg. 8 Kempson Pg. 9-10 Briony
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Pg. 11-12 Jessica Pg. 13 Joshua Pg. 14 Idunn Pg. 15-16 Dylan Pg. 17-18 David Pg. 19-20 Lauren
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Letter From the Editor A while back we had several writers respond to this call, and received a number of amazing articles. That is what is mainly outlined in this issue, and we hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. Keep writing, and enjoying fiction everyone. Dear Fellow Students, We are making a publication on Fiction and its hidden usefulness, and are hoping that you can help us with this mission. Think of all those movies, video games, or books that you love or loved in childhood. Many of you will ask why they should matter at all, and that is the problem that these works face in modern times, even among children who should enjoy them for the sake of imagination. Science has come so far that some do not believe that any work of fiction can hold truth to reality, and science itself. The question is, should you believe it? Fiction is the breeding ground of good ideas, and genius authors reflect on morals, emotions, and ideals in life that should be listened to. What we are hoping is that you, as a consumer of these fictional creations, will want to save them from this fate by writing on what you believe fiction has done for you. It can be a life lesson, a small, but specific theme, anything that you think you pulled from a fictional universe. It could be that you learned that violence isn’t the answer, or even the age old quote of “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Who learned that one from Bambi, and remembered it? Disney was fictional in its storytelling, but more importantly, it was used to teach life lessons to children. This message is evidence that fiction is more than just an entertaining story. Fiction is a representation of life itself; it has a certain force to it. So when you’re sitting at a tv, watching or playing a video game, or you sit to read a book, think about what you can take from it, and write to us. By stating that you’ve learned something, even if you are the only one who took that, you are showing the power of fiction. Just write about something you took from fiction and applied it to your life. If you are interested in helping us in this endeavor, please send us your thoughts on this idea of Fiction being a tool in life. It can be as long as you want, as broad, or specific. Don’t be one of those who write off the importance of Fiction; take up your pen, and just write.
The editors Lauren price and Stevie keesling
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Another generation of games have ar-
the fans certainly are. If you want to be a part of this new generation of software, rived to the market, and while Nintendo you can buy it at most retailers, the is missing from the battle, both MiPlaystation 4 is $400, and the Xbox one crosoft and Sony have sharpened their is $500. For those of you who have alblades considerably. On November ready pre-ordered, which one are you 15th Sony released its Playstation 4, and getting? And why? on November 22nd, the Xbox One will By lauren Price be released by Microsoft. On both sides, followers have already pre-ordered their consoles, but a portion of these orders will not be met until early next year. The reason? Not enough consoles to meet demands. With both of these consoles coming into the market, more games will be possible, and what does that mean for fiction lovers? More fun, and connections.
While not everyone has jumped on this bandwagon, plenty have, and while the companies aren’t at each other’s throats,
Halo 5
Star Wars Returns
Ever wondered what happened to Luke, Leia, and Han after the first Star Wars trilogy? Plenty of us thought that that was the end of their presence in Star Wars, but with the new movie coming up, news of the actors has come out. The verdict? They’re in the new movie being introduced by Disney. After the newer Indiana Jones, I’m not quite on board. To boot, they’ve lost George Lucas’s touch, though for many that touch has been gone since the last installments of the series. The question comes around to whether on not, we are all anticipating where this movie will go. Down the dumpster or up into good rankings? Where are you on this news? Excited or wary? Should these actors reappear, or is it a little late in their career? By lauren price
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Henry’s Once Upon A Time
Growing up, I was never any good at interacting with other people.I never knew what to say to other people, and it did not help that I was shy and soft spoken. Trying to join a conversation was bad enough without trying to figure out if they just could not hear me or if they were just plain ignoring me. Even worse was when someone only half heard me, and the whole flow of conversation broke while they tried to decipher what I said though my nervous stammers. There were times where I could go days without saying anything to anyone. It was hard for me to make friends, but what little friends I did have were very valuable to me. Most of the fiends I made were by accident or happenstance. I met one because I thought he had stolen my scissors, another because he sat next to me in several classes and we were forced to talk. As I went into middle school and on into high school, I found it harder and harder to make friends in this fashion, and I was forced to actually talk to people. On purpose. Except
I had nothing to say.
Fiction gave me a focus to talk about. Harry Potter was popular in middle school, and in high school to a lesser magnitude. Because anyone worth talking to had read at least one of the books or saw one of the movies, I could hold a conversation with anyone based entirely on the work of someone else. I could quote parts of the book. I could as questions about the book. I could make predictions about the book. I had no need to think of things to talk about because someone else had written them. There were so many opportunities to discuss these works of fiction that I could just let my imagination take control. I could just talk about my own imagination openly when before I did not have many people to share it with. The more I talked, the easier it was to talk. I found that I could branch out from Harry Potter and talk about superheroes, television shows, cartoons, movies, dumb stories my sister told me. These works of fiction created a topic point, a universal conversation starter. These works of fiction were some of the most important parts of my childhood. These works of fiction are still important to me today. TV rots your brain. A phrase that is heard fre-
quently in our generation. TV rots your brain, you would be better off playing outside. Outside where the sun shines and the kids play ball. Outside where it is hot and muggy and the ball field is on a hill. Where the kids do not hear what I say, and the ball is just a little too far to catch. I prefer inside. Inside where I can sit in the cool and shade to listen and watch these fantastic stories unfold. Where I can learn to focus my imagination, and make my own stories. TV rots your brain the same way water kills a flower. By Henry Kuehr-Mclaren
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John’s once Upon a time “Logic
will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere”- Albert Einstein. The above quote hits close to home anytime I think about the reasoning behind those simple quotation marks. I can’t help but elicit past aspects of my childhood anytime words like imagination or creativity or fric-
tion enter a conversation. Good times of playing with playmobil, building forts, and Lego sets are just some of these instances when I connect fiction and my childhood; two words that are practically synonymous. Even today, as a freshman in college, I try to incorporate the idea of fiction in an everyday basis. Fiction serves an essential purpose in my daily life, if not for practical purposes, for nostalgic reasons. I say this because fiction was such an important part of growing up for me that no matter how much I grow up, I will never give it up. It’s not a trade off or a plea deal I will accept for the price of adolescence or adulthood. I remember a specific time of my past where I did not sacrifice fiction for growing up. It was the Halloween of my Eighth grade, and I dressed up as an Army soldier. At that point in my life, I wanted to go into the military and I was very passionate about playing the part of a ranger for Halloween. I recognized that it was not popular to dress in the same costume as a second grader would when I was in the eighth grade. In fact, it was downright un-cool. Especially in eighth grade, where image and cliques were so “important”. My friends constantly warned me of this when they went trick or treating with me, but they could not convince me to forgo my imagination and change costumes. I went as a soldier the whole night, and even amongst the looks of other kids and even
adults, I had a blast. That night taught me the lesson that no matter how old I get, there will always be room for fiction backed by imagination. It was apparent that as an eighth grader, I was not an Army Ranger. But that simple, minute fact did not matter because I pretended for that night I was somebody else. I was playing the part of real person, but in a fictional light. Flash forward five tumultuous years later, and I still incorporate the idea of fiction into my life any time it is needed. Fiction comes in handy when I write papers for theater class, or when I need to spruce up a reflective blog post. There is no one single definitive instance in which I use fiction in the present, because it is the small circumstances where I use fiction that make the most impact. This creativity is essential to crafting remarkable pieces of work. I can only hope that I do not lose the fiction that is stored deep in the cavity of not my brain, but my soul. I know this imagination engine is stored in there, but utilizing it the older I get has proven to be challenging, but accomplishable. Far too often do people grow out of there fiction stage and blame the cause of this atrocity to the price for growing up. While this process is gradual and does not occur at once, it still brings with it a shock of similar proportion. I counteract this evolution into adulthood by executing the art of fiction. By John patrick
Kempson’s
once upon A time
Fiction is multipurpose. It can persuade, teach, and move its audience. At the end of the day, though, it’s usually produced- and sought - with the motivation of escapism. Few people go to the movie theater with the intention or expectation of an intellectual experience. The reader likes to think he is engaging in a more mentally stimulating retreat, and while that may be true, it’s still a retreat. The fantasy novel or thriller short story doesn’t hold itself higher than entertainment. Even video games with more artistic leanings don’t pursue a larger goal than entertaining the player. Well, they can try, but they usually end up being pretentious and unplayable. And you know what? This isn’t a bad thing. Entertainment for entertainment’s sake is perfectly fine in my book. That’s what I’ve gained from entertainment, actually. I love watching movies and I love making movies. I’m not saying even fiction made to entertain can’t be useful in other ways. If I’m watching a Disney movie, I’m probably doing it to get lost in magical and colorful world for a while. But as the
requester of this paper mentioned, Disney movies also impart important morals to children. Historical fiction can call attention to a little-known event or period of human history that most people don’t know about. Fiction can offer an island of comfort for people suffering emotionally, letting them know that their struggles in life are shared. Fiction can open up our minds to new ideas and philosophies. Like Ayn Rand, even though she’s wrong. Better example: we could all reflect on the absurdity of life after reading The Stranger and be better off for it. Still, I’m speaking in the abstract, not the personal. I couldn’t name one specific example of fiction influencing the way I handled a situation, although I’m sure it has somehow. Here’s what I took from fiction: motion picture is a wonderful storytelling medium I would love to use in my own way. If it turns out I make good movies, I think that’s still a worthy force of fiction. By kempson bellington
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Briony’s once Upon a time Something I have definitely learned from fiction is that nothing is without motive. I have always loved fictional television series and movies, books, stories, etc. such as the Twilight Saga, Smallville, and many others. I have even gained many principles and goals from them. Fictional tales with heroes (or victims) and antagonists helped better illustrate the difference between right and wrong for me and probably many other young children as well. The idea of what true love should look like sounds corny, but stories like that of Cinderella or The Little Mermaid developed early principles in my mind of what love should be like and most likely did the same for other girls my age. These things I have mentioned just go to show that fiction is simply a less direct way to get a point across and often fictional stories are symbolic of ideas or morals, whether we realize it immediately or not. Often points portrayed in movies have satirical motives or mock happenings that have taken place in the real world. When I was a kid, The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies. However, when I took Honors U.S. History my junior year in high school, I learned that the movie was actually symbolic of an old government issue. Each character represented a political figure that the author was not fond of at the time. In other words, this wasn’t an innocent cute movie as it was originally meant to be portrayed.
This example just further goes to show that no fictional tale is without motive. Other than The Wizard of Oz of course, I’ve always been able to pull good morals from fictional tales. Fiction has always really fascinated me as a child, and even now, because I have never really taken an interest in non-fiction. I’ve always been a huge fan of DC comics and other action movies/series/books/ etc. Maybe I like the idea of being saved or just having super powers because in reality, none of us do. As kids, we all wanted them. We can’t fly away, but we are forced to deal with the tough situations that we put ourselves in. Comics give us a sense of justice and remind us of how to view morality. I think the authors of most comics not only created heroes to provide the world’s children with positive role models, but to help children realize that they aren’t like the heroes portrayed in comics. Flying away isn’t an option. Much like violent comics, movies and series that we simply watch, video games and other fictional activities that we participate in affect the way we think, multitask and view things. In Gee’s book, What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy, James analyzes the positive effects of video games on society, unlike most critiques of video games. He even goes into detail about “How individuals develop a sense of identity; how one grasps meaning; how one evaluates and follows a command; how one picks a role model; how one perceives the world”. This was interesting to me, because his views seem to greatly contrast with that of other writers when regarding video games. I have always viewed them negatively, mindnumbing to violence, possible causes of violence for kids that want to resemble the characters, etc. By briony brundidge
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Jessica’s once Upon a time
get about their lives for a certain amount of iction has had a large impact on society as time and immerse themselves in a different well as my life. Fictions books spark creativity reality. When fiction books are made into movies, the same thing occurs. Personally, I in many people. J.K. Rowling was going did not read the Hunger Games trilogy bethrough many struggles when she finally recause I did not like the writing style but I will leased her first Harry Potter book. Now that book series is one of the most successful of all watch all of those movies because the futuristic world that is portrayed is so unique and intertime. esting. As a whole, society is impacted by fiction because some fiction books become so Now that I start to think about it, I wonder popular that everyone wants to buy and read why those books are so popular... do books always become more popular after a movie is them so they can have the same experience as everyone else who has read them. When movmade? Why do we have to make movies based off of books, why not just leave it up to ies are made based off of these popular books, our imagination? Most of the time movies do millions of people will go watch them so they not do the books justice, and that is always dis- have the chance to see their favorite characters appointing. Sometimes, the movies are done brought to life. Viewers have the chance to be able to see the world they have only read right and you always go back for more.. I would love to write a fiction book but how do about. These movies can earn millions, or people create another world, and other people even billions of dollars because so many people want to watch them. that seem real? How are people inspired?
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The Harry Potter books are so creative, and the movies allow you to transport yourself to another world. I think that is the biggest reason why fiction books are so popular. The authors write in such a way that people are able to for-
If I read a popular book series I do so in create incredible stories. order to determine for myself whether or not they are good books. I choose which By Jessica pennachio books i would like to read based on whether or not I find the summary interesting or I like the photo on the front of the book. Sometimes my friends recommend a book series to me but most of the time I am just interested in the book. My favorite book series is the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. Christopher’s writing is so descriptive and contains so many tiny details that it feels as if you are right next to the characters as they go through their lives. The Inheritance Cycle has also inspired some of my art work. I started drawing some of the book covers because I enjoyed reading the books so much. Another one of my favorite book series is Maximum Ride. I love these books because they portray a slight alteration of reality. It seems as if the story could be possible, sometime in the future. I think some of these books could also be considered to be as inspirational to some degree. I think fiction books in general have very strong lead characters with good morals. Personally, I love to read fiction books because the stories are so elaborate and creative. Authors need to create a connection between the characters and the reader so people will want to read all of the books. In order for a reader to enjoy the book the author should make the character as interesting as possible. That is one of my favorite things about reading, you form connections with the characters and you don’t want to put the book down. I think it is incredible to be able to create a story that people are going to want to read over and over again. I’m sure many people are inspired by fiction and as long as people remain creative, their imaginations can
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JosHua’s Once upon a
Fiction is something that is real, although it is not actually true. When we as humans make fiction, we come up with ideas that have been based off of the non-fiction things we know. No matter how original we try to be, all of the fiction that exists is only ideas based off of the truth. Even though fiction may not be accurate and real, fiction has the biggest influence on society and the non-fiction. When we dream of things that seem impossible, we try to make them real. Whether we succeed or not, the work of fiction we imagine, we can actually try to create. Sometimes this leads to our reality changing and new inventions/things. Fiction sways the way reality balances.
Fiction also influences our lives. It alters our perception of reality. As, children, we grew up learning these fictional stories that influenced us more than we realized. These stories and experiences changed the way we looked at life and ultimately affected how we grew up. No matter how we grow up and how old we get, fiction will always affect the way we see things and the way we act. WE learn how to handle situations and society based on the fictional and nonfictional things we know.
No matter how much we underestimate fictional works, they will always change us. Our lives are partial reflections of the fictions we grew up to and the society changed by them. Don’t believe that fiction cannot be real, because we can make it true.
By Joshua Abee
Idunn’s once upon a time
The Harry Potter books were a big part of my childhood and they taught me many important things. The most important way in which the books by J.K. Rowling benefitted me is that they inspired me to read. Because I started reading these books at such an early age, I wanted to read all of them. My dad read the first ones to me in Norwegian, and I soon started reading them in Norwegian by myself. At one point I decided that I wanted to read the books in the language they were originally written in, and so I purchased the new books in English rather than in Norwegian. I was living in Norway at the time, and did not speak English other than in English class. I believe that these books inspired me to become the enthusiastic reader that I am today, and to learn to speak and read in English faster than I would’ve learned in school. By idunn lohne
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Dylan’s once Upon a time
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iterally throughout my entire life I have taken life lessons from all the cartoons, anime, movies, and videogames that I have seen. From my childhood, even to present day college, I still watch these shows, movies, and play these video games because of how great they were and how valuable their “advice” was. I know I couldn’t of been the only one who was interested in this kind of top. In fact, there is actually a study/ experiment that was conducted by some scientists at the University of Toronto, that went on to explore the benefits of reading and watching fiction compared to nonfiction. What was interesting, was that the study found that delving into fiction proved to better prepare those who read it for the real world, and even increased their social ability and personality overall, compared to those who read or watched non-fiction.
I think that this is some interesting information, and it really shows that fiction is important and interesting! From watching Dragon Ball Z, I learned that sometimes it is best to stand up to those who don’t see eye to eye with you, even if you or someone else do not want you to, and that courage, bravery, and sometimes love, can make the biggest differences in a struggle. After watching Naruto I learned that you should never give up on someone who is your best friend, and no matter what, you should try to help them with their problems, even if they involve you, and that friendship is truly a prize and should be cherished as one. The movies, TV show, and games of the Pokemon series can all teach you some things. One thing in particular that I felt it taught me was to never misjudge someone or something, and to accept anyone no matter what they may look or act like, even
Not only could cartoon-like fiction be a source of life lessons, but other types of fiction could be as well. After seeing countless old and new scary movies, there is one thing I’ve taken from all of them, and applied to life. That one is to never investigate something creepy of terrifying, in hopes of finding something interesting. Why, you may ask, people do this? I’m not sure why some people do this, but I know that it is never a good idea, and I hold that close to my common sense. In fact, there was one moment when I took this knowledge and used it! One time a couple summers ago, my best friend and I were walking through the park near my neighborhood, at night, and just happened to hear this really low, and coarse, growling sound coming from some nearby bushes. First, let me tell you about my best friend. His name is Tyler, and we have been living next to each other since the fourth grade, so we’re pretty close. We do pretty much everything together. Tyler is probably
one of the funniest people that I know, actually, scratch that, he is the FUNNIEST person i know. He usually takes bad situations and puts them into a lighter mood i guess. There is really only one thing that he seriously can’t stand though, and that is scary things and situations. So, whenever that bush started making weird noises you can imagine the pure terror on his face, and I truly believe he was close to breaking out in tears, poor guy. Now,back to the story, we did not know what it was, but we had both seen so many scary movies that we knew what could happen if we investigated those bushes, so you could definitely believe that we scooted out of there like it wasn’t even our business. After that we never really went to the park at night again (haha). There are so many other pieces of fiction that life lessons can be taken from, and every one could potentially help the person that understands them. Sometimes though, people may not even get a lesson, or an idea from a piece of fiction,
but that’s okay, as long as it was enjoyed as a whole. Overall I would definitely say that the Force of Fiction (great name for a paper by the way) is very heavily influential on some minds, and that those who do learn from fiction actually benefit a little more from life because of it. This is all my personal opinion, however, so anyone who may read this does not have to listen to my words if they don’t want to. I just believe that everyone can learn from fiction, and that the life lessons that it can teach you can truly benefit you and make a change for the better in your life. So I strongly encourage the readers of this essay, article, or whatever you may call it, to pick up a fictional movie, game, or even a book if that’s your thing, and absorb all the knowledge from it, because it’s there, and it’s waiting to change a life. By Dylan miller
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davId’s once upon a time
expressed in multiple mediums, usually through colored sketches and laughable will begin with a life story about fiction. short stories. It was this developed capacity As an elementary school student, I was part to dream and create that I have taken away of an advanced reading program that refrom my younger years, always keeping it quired me to read a book every two weeks. I within my mind’s reach, if I ever need an hated it at the time but later realized how escape from creative blocks or dead end valuable it was. We were allowed to choose thoughts. our novel and I always went to fiction before anything else. Reading these fantastic stories caused me to have a very active imagination that was always thinking, always creating. I subconsciously realized that if these professional published writers could craft a universe that submersed people in unconventional, almost impossible worlds, offering such an entertaining refuge, than so could I, because they all started out like me drawing doodles and playing make believe as a child. With an equally imaginative twin sister as a playmate, we would spend hours on end collectively dreaming up universes that came to life at our command, always subjected to refinement and elaboration, and reflecting the fusion of our interests. These creations were
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I want to focus on these universes I crafted as a child, recognizing them all as alternate realities, a very important tool of fiction. I have seen fictional works such as crimson skies and steamboy portray seemingly impossible wars dominated by a past technology (dirigibles and steam power) that never developed any farther past its death many years ago. Similar works tell of utopian societies free of war and the negatives of today, while others describe post-apocalyptic landscapes scattered with broken communities that lack systems of law and modern conveniences. It is in these alternate realities that we can see cause and effect, altered life styles be it good or bad, and many other possibilities unachievable in this time period and dimension. Interestingly we almost always see human nature in these fictional worlds, and how it would behave under certain circumstances, revealing deep instinctual human tendencies such as love and abuse of power that are prevalent no matter where humans or human-like entities interact and dwell. Sometimes it takes a world with different themes and norms to make us recognize who we are as a species and what we accept as write and wrong. I think this is why fables are used to teach things like morals.
phones and tablets. Devices people at the time never thought would actualize until much farther into the future are already a reality and widely used. Everyone one the Starship Enterprise also had universal translators that could interpret any alien language into English as it was spoken. We now have applications on our smart phones like travel voice translator that can do the same thing for foreign languages. This very aspect of science fiction makes it such an interesting genre to read not only because you are given a sometimes accurate preview of what new technology will be like, but it shows how man can make his own impossible future a reality. Without fiction we would have trouble dreaming as big as we do, and it is these big dreams that motivate the advancement of our society evermore towards the impossible. In light of all of these things fiction is capable of, I think we as a society should avoid discarding so quickly tales of magic and spaceships, as they are more important than we think. Story telling has been around since almost the very beginning of man and should remain a part of our lives, even as technology reveals more and more facts every day. By david pann
Fiction also has the power to predict the future. A specific example from science fiction I will use is Star Trek. In this show almost everybody on the ship uses tri-quarters and what look like tablets to read and display information. This show first aired in the sixties but was able to predict the existence of smart
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laUren’s once upon a time
Fiction for me, has been a lifestyle. I’ve learned from it, and I’ve taken some ideas of truth from it as well. Growing up, I watched a lot of disney. The thing is, while many kids I knew had just Disney movies, I had my dad showing me the old version of the Hobbit, which freaked me out, but I was also exposed to the Lord of the Rings. My dad is a serious fan when it comes to J.R.R. Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings trilogy, and that was what ended up shaping me in the early years of my life. Why did it affect me so much? I think Lord of the Rings had been my constant teacher, never leaving me, or me abandoning it. It taught me that Hollywood is a sucker for a good female character even if it has nothing to do with the plot, and that they might also believe that authors don’t always know how to keep an audience. One of the major lessons I learned from this series is both in the books and the movies, which is that every person deserves a second chance. I took this from Boromir, who starts out the series being a pretty arrogant, and nasty person to Aragorn. But the best part of his being a character is that he eventually starts to realize the path that he is on. I almost wonder what would’ve happened had he lived. Would he have followed Aragorn? Would he still have become a major player in the battle for Middle Earth? But sadly Tolkien’s plot would not
include this well grown character, instead using him to teach the lesson of giving everyone a chance. The sudden growth before his death is really obnoxious when you get emotionally invested in a character, but it definitely makes an impression on a reader, and helps you look at yourself to make sure you aren’t going down the same path.
My source for this was the book by James Wood, titled How Fiction works. Most of his work analyzes how different parts of fiction are used by writers, but I found a few pieces that connected to this idea that fiction is more than just a tool for entertaining the masses. A few quotes I found highlighted these ideas more than most of his work. “Some of the purest examples of irony are found in children’s literature, which often needs to allow a child-or the child’s proxy, an animal-to see the world through limited eyes, while alerting the older reader to this limitation.”
How does this apply to The Force of Fiction? James Wood also sees that fiction is used for more than just entertainment, having a special job as a learning device for children to understand the world around them. To the adult it is obvious how much of the world is left out, but the child has no idea what is missing. So why then is there children’s literature? It has a way of slowly introducing what is out there, and somehow managing to teach children important lessons about life, and people in general. On the more obvious side of where I’ve taken from fiction is in its more applicable world of Science Fiction. Fiction has helped me realize the connection between the written word and life in general. Authors aren’t entirely original in their work, their ideas come from somewhere, and that somewhere is the world around them. How does this connect to me? For me, I take from the people I meet, the places I see, and other works of fiction. All it takes sometimes is a thought on something, like “I really wish they didn’t kill that character”, and somehow I end up applying that to my own writing. “But no one is literally run off her feet. What we hear is Lily saying to herself or to a friend (with great emphasis on precisely the most inaccurate word, and with a strong accent): (“Oi was lit-errully ron off me feet!”) How do we know no one is literally run off their feet? I think it is a part of the real world that we connect to when we read fiction, and that is what the writer hopes and realizes you will do. Even in
real life there are people saying the word “literally” in the same fashion, and writers notice that. That is why it is in fiction, and used in such a ridiculous way. It’s also how they make the characters that much more believable for the reader. Fiction started as that other world you could go to to get away, but morphed into something that just made this world seem so much greater, so much brighter. It takes an otherwise normal scenery, and makes it into something more magical. This is what it has done for me as a whole, it changed my perception of what is, and what can be done, and it certainly made me more hopeful. The fact that it reinforced my morals, and intelligence is just a great bonus to add onto its many ways of helping the world. Writers know what they’re doing, even the Hollywood scriptwriters that are trying to go so over the top that viewers can’t ignore their work. There is always a shred of credibility to what writers create, most of what comes from their minds is a result of the world around them. By lauren price
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