Historical Fiction | Essay

Running head: HISTORICAL FICTION
Historical Fiction
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When the concept of “Fiction” is used, it refers to an imaginary story set in a real
location, and comprising a number of characters in the novel itself. Fiction is divided into a
number of genres, and each of these genres is said to have a number of ways in which the
story and the characters of the fiction is used by the authors of the fictions. However, it is said
that although fiction are said to be imaginary, they might be based on some true incident or
event which might have happened in the past. In this sense, it is said fiction can reveal some
of the truths in it. Thus, it is on the basis of these truths that the authors can make up the
fiction part of the events. Thus can be mostly seen in the case of the historical fiction, be it
any kind of genre. Fiction can present the truth behind the events by presenting the story by
changing a little bit of the event itself. It is because of this fact that it is said by fiction can be
used to present the truth to the readers. Historical fictions are widely used for telling the story
of the world wars or the cold wars in the genre of thrillers or in the genre of romantic stories.
Thus, it is definitely true when it is said that the fiction can offer truths
The purpose of this prompt is to describe how fiction can be used to offer truths
and how can fiction be used to provide historical and past truths to the readers.
In today’s world, it is rightly said that the fiction can be successfully by the authors to
present the truth to the readers. This is because most writers of the present generation use the
hazy boundary between the fact and the fiction to write their stories and the novels. Thus, it
can be said that the authors do like to present the elements of truth in their stories and novels
which are considered to be works of fiction. There has been a keen interest between the
function between the fiction and the non-fiction and the ways in which both of these
functions together to present a story to the readers which comprises both the facts and the
fiction in it. Thus, it can be said in this matter that the writers of both the fiction and that of
the non-fiction are more interested in finding out the main reason behind how the media
portrays the fiction stories presenting the truth to the readers of the stories (Alston 2018). The

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main reason behind this is the writers want to find out the fact whether the readers of the
book or the stories or the events which are presented in the books and the stories. It is a
commonly known fact that the imagination and truth functions good together in good
literature story itself. This what the authors mean when they say the fact that just because a
story is fiction does not mean that it cannot contain the elements of truth in it. Fiction and
truth are said to be related to each other in various ways (Bokulich 2016). One such way is
the functions of both the facts and fictions with each other. In this case, it can be said that the
job of fiction is to feign, to shape and to create. Thus, it can be said that fiction creates the
events which takes place. The function of truth in this case is to form the original events
which inspires the fictitious side of the truth of the event. Another important fact is that the
fiction helps the readers to imagine the various things which they see in their own ways.
Human beings are said to be highly imaginative animals themselves. This can be said
especially to be true in the case of the children. The main reason for the human beings and
the children being so imaginative is the fact that that they have been created by God and have
been made imaginative in the similar manner he has created his human beings. It is because
of this reason that the children like story books which have pictures in them. Hence, it can be
said regarding this fact that the both the concept of the truth and the fiction have been added
in the pictures. This can be best explained in the form of the pictures which the truth and the
writings which serves the purpose of the fiction in the books (Boyd 2018). Thus, using this,
the children will be able to now a lot about the fiction and the truth of the stories which is
presented by the authors of the book. In addition to this, the concept of the truth and fiction
has also been used by the humans in the ancient times through the drawing of the images on
the sad itself. Thus, it can be said form this that the imagination is not only considered to be a
human gift, it is also an innovation in itself, which helps the individuals to connect he truth
and the fiction together.