Our main objective of the day was Notebook Assignment 4.2 parts A and B. I detailed my own personal plot map before we worked on author Tim O'Brien's plot map.
Thus far we've discussed The Things They Carried as a memoir but it cannot be put into a single genre (style, category). The opening of Tim O'Brien's novel identifies The Things They Carried as a work of fiction. In libraries and bookstores, you will find it with other novels. More often than not, however, readers who complete O'Brien's novel feel that they have read a true story, or nonfiction. How can this be the case? Though it might seem confusing, we should read O'Brien's novel through a variety of lenses. At various points, it may read as historical fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir or meta-fiction. O'Brien writes in a unique voice with varying styles, using the following genres:
1) Historical Fiction
2) Memoir
3) Creative Non-fiction
4) Meta-fiction
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