Comparisons of Real and Fiction
While reading the book Theft by Joyce Carol Oates I found that often enough or for the whole time I did not think that the story was fiction at all. It drew me into its reality and then gave it an ending for me to rest on. The biggest part of this story to making someone think it is a real true life story of someone's, was the ending when it told what happened to everyone, "That fall, Mayra learned that Imogene was living in New York City. She had broken off her engagement over the summer; she had joined a troupe of semiprofessional actors, and lived in an apartment off St. Marks Square," (Theft, pg. 507). This quote to a person reading the book would see this as a true story for the simple fact that it is usually done in movies today where the plot is based on true-life accounts. Other things that came into affect that contributed to this story not being fiction was that when the book started talking about a girl's obsession to steal petty little things. This is not something that is usually brought into a book by a fictional writer and then to add a twist of revenge to it. This girl, Marya who steals has an uncanny obsession to st
This show that the story could easily be a fiction story due to the fact that she was entitled by the "scholar ship girl. A contribution to show the complexity of the character that resides every where throughout the short story, "Sprawled across her bed, taking notes, drafting out sketches and scenes, narrating a story she seemed to be hearing in kind of a trance; she could write until her hand ached and her eyes filled with tears and she felt that another pulse beat would push her over the brink," (Theft, pg. To have combined this story with the two most complicated things such as an obsession and a "scholar ship girl" the story must be real. While seeing that this book while I read it seemed very real to me I never lost track of the points that Oates did a wonderful job on keeping the time frame correct and to the factional points of the matter. To far fetched some would say and not far off the wall at all others would think, which gives this story a fictional type of questioning. On the other side to this story there is the fact that maybe this was just a well written piece of art in a sense. S if she had experienced some powerful drain on her energy. This not seeming very weird at the time goes into much of a conversation later. This quote is what starts off the obsession that the reader can see at least, where she starts to prize things that others have. eal but then has her best defeat by stealing from someone that she let get close. Marya takes this friend ship that she has never had and throws it down the drain by stealing from Imogene. While reading this some may notice that the story flows carelessly without very much guidance to believe weather this is a true story or not. Some other things that have to be shown to show that this story could easily be mistaken or read as a fiction story is the point in book that shows where Marya gets close to a girl names Imogene who has complete trust in Marya. If this were a real true-life accounts story, I do not think that such drastic stealing of such petty things such as a pen, would not take place.
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