History Paper
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Traditionally, writing styles are mainly divided into three categories, Narrative, Expository and Persuasive. Historical writing is considered of type expository where as historical fiction falls under narrative style of writing. The primary difference between thses two styles of writing is that, narrative writing focuses on describing a fictional experience while expository writing focuses on conveying an information or tries to explain the facts in lucid language. Historical fiction presents more realistic view of the past than textual history does because unlike textual history, fiction allows the readers to be a spectator and watch the whole drama unfolding in front of their eyes. Some of the information in the novel about the characters can be assumed from the sources that inspire a fictional writer like personal understanding of a character or other evidences like letters and documents. Nonetheless the kind of details like existing conditions, geography of the plot and emotional states of the characters allows the readers to experience the whole event without having to deal with the intricacies of keeping track of chronological order of the events. Historical fiction like historical truth is not obliged to prove the legitimacy of an event. Textual writings on history presents the authors' point of view about an event while historical fiction presents the authors' view of the involved characters point of view about an event. Although historical writing and historical fiction have few things in common they present absolutely different view about a particular historical event. I believe that readers tend to learn more about a historical event from historical fiction than textual history.
Historical fiction provides in depth description about a particular event than textbook does. The novel written on the Battle of Gettysburg and its textual...
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