The Truth in Memoir:
Many books today are a work of fiction, not depending on if
it is labeled non-fiction. A lot of people fabricate their stories and
embellish them and it doesn’t stay true to the actual storyline of their tale.
I think that if a book says that it is non-fiction it should be all the way
true, no exaggerations, no gimmicks. If it is not all the way true than why
would they label it that way? I would not want to be lied to and tricked into thinking
that somebody’s life is different than what they wrote. If it was mostly true
people could say something like “based on a true story” or “based on actual
events in my life”. I think that lying to get your story published is a way a
diminishing your credibility and betraying many people’s trust. If something is
‘half- true’- it could still be an amazing story, no doubt. The fact that they
could say it is true is something that I do not like. I will still read a good
story no matter what, but I don’t want to respect somebody for their memoir that
is not true. It’s like saying I won the gold medal in the Olympics and I get
tons of recognition for it when it turns out I only won my knothole league in baseball
when I was 12. It is irritating. I don’t think that we necessarily need to
label books as non-ficiton or fiction, but when I am choosing a nice novel to
read I usually pick it out based on the genre first. If I pick out a
non-fiction and find out its fiction, okay whatever. It would still be a good
book but it is not what I signed up for when I started reading it. It matters
to me because I am kind of picky about any book that I choose to read, and I am
usually a very harsh judge. If I find out a story is not true when it says it
is, I’m not going to be a happy camper.
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