Module 7 4. Fiction and non-fiction
One of the main divisions in writing (particularly used in libraries), is whether a text is fiction or non-fiction. It is important to be able to tell the difference between the two. Fiction is made up and not true.
Te following are examples of fiction: 1. Te Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2. Te wonderful story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl 3. Tirteen Hours by Deon Meyer
Non-fiction is fact and it is the truth. Newspaper articles are examples of non-fiction and so are documentaries and reality programmes.
Te following are examples of non-fiction: 1. A television documentary on how people live in the Sahara Desert. 2. A recipe book on Italian cooking. 3. A newspaper report on Eskom’s 5% increase of electricity.
ACTIVITY 1
Although the following text happened in America, it has a lesson for all of us - no matter where we live. Read it before you answer the questions.
Did you know??
Non-fiction can be written about fiction, e.g. giving
information about how the Harry Potter films were made.
Bus ride to freedom The story of a quiet woman who, by saying ‘No’, changed American history
America’s apartheid On 5 December 1955 Rosa Parks, an ordinary seamstress a long day’s work when she boarded the No. 2857 bus for her usual ride home. She had to board twice - once through the front door to pay her fare to the driver, and then she had to get off and board again through the back door. This was in Alabama, America’s notoriously racist Deep South. The buses were racially segregated
Did you know??
Te bus Rosa rode on that day is on display in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
while blacks sat at the back. Blacks could also sit in the middle rows but only if no white person needed a seat. If one did, blacks had to vacate the whole row. That day Rosa sat with three other
black people in the middle section. When a white man got on the bus the driver yelled for her and her travelling companions to get up, but Rosa refused. ‘If you don’t stand up I’m going to call the police and have you arrested,’
The day that helped end
he said angrily. ‘You may do
that,’ Rosa said. All her life she’d done
what white people had told her but came, hauled her off and took her Black people in the South got moved
off ‘white’ park benches, could drink only from public taps set aside for ‘coloured folk’ and weren’t allowed to try on clothes in clothing shops. Rosa’s resistance changed all that. She was the daughter of a church
school teacher and a carpenter - a humble person whose patience had simply worn out. ‘People always say the reason I didn’t
give up my seat was because I was tired but that wasn’t true,’ she said. ‘I was just tired of giving in.’ The consequences followed
$4 in court costs. Her employer also
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