#8

How true does a book have to be to be considered nonfiction I think that the book should for the most part be very true. I think the only acceptations to lie in your book is for if you don’t want someone to the person that you are talking about or if it’s something that will affect someone else life in a negative way which they don’t want.

Half-truths are not ok in my opinion even if it’s still a good story. I say this because it’s like your story isn’t good enough unless you lie. Why lie about a story that didn’t really happen to you. If you are a good writer you can tell the story in a different way in which people will like and it will be the truth. It does matter that Frey or others memoirist bent the truth to their story because like Frey writes about a girl dying in his book and how he was part of it when he really wasn’t is wrong. Think about how people who knew this girl and were a part of her lost feel about the book. Memoirist should be honest. There is no good reason to lie.

I believe that David Shields is right for the most part. We do need to label something fiction or nonfiction. Sometimes I think I does matter a lot because it just makes it easier for people to a read a book that they know if it’s true or not. But sometime I think that we make such a big deal over whether it’s this genre or that genre. At the end of a book we should judge because someone put a lot of work into the book for the most part or I at least hope they did. I think that we should judge someone’s book because it’s wrong judge and we don’t like to be judge. Even though everyone judges everyone else.