RE: Telling fact from fiction
July 21, 2016 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2016 at 9:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 21, 2016 at 9:45 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Ok... I was doing some research. What I found, is that the point of view of the narrator is not discussed as much concerning non-fiction, as it is fiction. I did find some that referenced third person omniscient non-fiction and called in the Journalist or professional point of view. Come to think about it, I've seen nature documentaries given in this point of view.Yeah, nature documentaries that imagine what the alligator is thinking, and then voice it in american english. Fiction. Journalists who guess, as best they can, the thoughts of others. Fiction. I don't know if anyone ever told you this...but we often use fiction to explore or convey fact.
Quote:Other than the fact, that a human author cannot give first hand accounts from two distinct places at once, and therefore cannot both be first hand accounts (told in a third person narration) what is the reasoning behind your claim (that third person omnipresent is decidedly fictional? I am also curious to know what you mean by "no matter -what- they're talking about...they're making at least -some- of it up"? Why only some; why not all or none?Other than it being impossible, what's the reason for my claim....really?
As to some, because I'm not a moron who thinks that there's a single word or method that can determine the entirety of truth. The author may write -about- a conversation...imagining motivations or inner dialog. They may be cleverly anthro-ing a gator eating a deer. The narrative is still fiction, even when the conversation happened, and the deer was eaten. The narrative being fiction does not change that the convo happened, or the deer was eaten. This is just a way opf getting a read that doesn;t require you to check any of the facts of the narrative, which was what was requested.
Might not be all...can't be none - because, impossible. Leaves us with "at least some", eh?
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