Realistic Fiction
Katherine Aasen & Sean Harris
Definition:
-Although untrue, could happen. Some events, people, and places may be true.
-A story with a realistic plot and with realistic characters that hasn't happened but could.
-A story forged but realistic; it could really have occurred or an illusory story where folks and actions are truthful and could occur in actual life expectancy.
Characters:
Characters in a realistic fiction have to be just that, realistic. This genre requires these kinds of characters because you have to connect to them, and make you think that you are in their shoes.
The traits in most realistic fiction characters are traits that you could have. Such as caring, open-minded, adventurous, any traits that you could possibly have
Places:
-The places in a realistic fiction story have to be a place that you could actually go.
example; a beach, New York, a playground.
non-examples- In Wonderland, in a fairy land, Spongebob's Pineapple under the sea.
You need to be actually able to go to these places, They have to exist.
Examples of Realistic Fiction Books:
The Fault in Our Stars
By: John Green
Holes
By: Louis Sachar
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
By: Jeff KInney
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Short Story Analysis
Book Analysis-The Story of An Hour- Kate Chopin
This story is about a very ill woman who is in so much pain that she feels she is being possessed. When she is struck with the news that her husband has passed in a train accident, she locks herself in a room and drinks a poison. Later after she had drank the poison, she collapses, and is taken to the hospital, and then dies. The doctors say she passed of a heart infection, although in reality she dies of the poison.