Fiction & Nonfiction

W: Class, we are going to distinguish the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Basically, fiction is the storytelling of imagined events, and nonfiction is fact or reality. Specifically, fiction is imagined stories such as novels, fables, fairy tales, cartoons, and comics. These can contain some factual events that are revised with imaginary contents. M: What about movies? W: Excellent question. What do you think? M: Fiction. W: Very good! Movies and video games, the ones you guys always play after school, are fiction. Most of them are made up stories. Some are based on true stories, but they have added imaginary stories to grab people's attention. Fiction has the ability to stir people's emotions. It can give us hope and make us laugh or cry. I'm sure you have cried, laughed hard, or felt so sorry for the characters in the fiction you have read or seen. Finally, contrasted with fiction, nonfiction deals with facts. However, the facts could contain false information. M: How? W: We I, the author believes that what he or she has written is true at that time, but the facts that he or she wrote could be proven false afterwards. Common examples of nonfiction works are essays, journals, documentaries, photographs, and biographies.