Difference between fiction (based on author’s life) and a real life of an author. By Prof Dr Sohail ansari
(Anyone of you who sees wrong, let him undo it with his
hand; and if he cannot, then let him speak against it with his tongue, and if
he cannot do this either, then (let him abhor it) with his heart, and this is
the least of faith)
Difference between fiction (based on author’s life)
and a real life of an author
·
Writer writes for readers. If life of his is
not so palatable, he has to make it so through embellishment or through fictionalization
(of the details of his life).
·
Things may be too specific to the culture of a
writer, he has to de-localize them.
·
Events those hold special meanings to a writer,
for example, the death of his mother, may be of no interest to readers. Writer is
to ensure that intensity of his feelings must reverberate with readers.
Do exercise from extending
your response.
Glencoe Literature.
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Exercise
How do you describe the holder of such belief? Hardy perennial optimist
or unrealistic? One cannot play to win only.
·
“My thoughts are
stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
― John Green, The
Fault in Our Stars
Thoughts in
isolation are to trot out to form skein of ideas and it is not to be so if one
could not put all his thoughts together. Discuss.
One cannot fool all people all the time but can always fool
enough number of people to win election. John Green is to fathom some stars into
constellations to say ‘‘My
thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green*
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all
at once." Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her
a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter
inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters
suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be
completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our
Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking
work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of
being alive and in love. 'Electric . . . Filled with staccato bursts of humor
and tragedy' - Jodi Picoult 'A novel of life and death and the people caught in
between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry,
and then you come back for more' – Markus Zusak, author of
The Book Thief
You have to writer drama or script for a movie that
explores the life of a person_ a life that is funny, thrilling, and tragic as it is caught between life and
death.
But remember: A film is - or
should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of
moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that
comes later. Stanley Kubrick
Science
fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon
will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the
same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the
world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible,
never the impossible. Ray
Bradbur
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