What does it mean when an author writes...
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I'm think it mean all the characters and events in the story are real but the story is made up......
But dont the events make the story.....?
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Think of it like titanic. The event is true but the story is made up
Ahhhh I see. Thanks.
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Nah
Story = big picture, why am I writing this book/play/movie/tv show? To tell the story a story about x. Ok, what's happening to tell the story about x?
Events: things that happen during the story.
Example
Story - group has to travel to mordor to destroy the ring 'to rule them all' (which...honestly I never understood why this ring was so powerful, it just made you invisible...but some characters can still see you)
Events: they leave the shire, they go through the cave, they fight the orcs.
I'm into storytelling, any form of media, needed to explain that to myself. Not an English major, but I think I can hold my own.
Story = big picture, why am I writing this book/play/movie/tv show? To tell the story a story about x. Ok, what's happening to tell the story about x?
Events: things that happen during the story.
Example
Story - group has to travel to mordor to destroy the ring 'to rule them all' (which...honestly I never understood why this ring was so powerful, it just made you invisible...but some characters can still see you)
Events: they leave the shire, they go through the cave, they fight the orcs.
I'm into storytelling, any form of media, needed to explain that to myself. Not an English major, but I think I can hold my own.
ok so the book I read goes like this:
story - Japanese force Koreans to change their names to Japanese names.
events - little boy growing up in korea during japans occupation. bunch of events in his life. gets smacked and punished by japanese teacher. friend dies. his korean teacher gets killed in mongolia by soviets. eventually time passes. gets kicks out of school cause he still has a korean name. goes to police station with father to get his name change.
isn't it essentially the same thing? events are just more detailed?
am1x90xnike
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Story: kid growing up in wartime Korea (a coming of age story)
Events: they make him change his name. Friend dies. Gets kicked out of school.
Events are part of the story, events can change but the story can't change. The events are the things that happen. The story is what the book is about.
Think of it like a sandwhich, the full sandwhich is the story, but the ham, turkey, cheese, lettuce. Etc. are the events.
Best I could come up with to demonstrate how parts make up the whole, but each individual part isn't itself important, but taken as a whole, it gives you something to sink your teeth into.
Events: they make him change his name. Friend dies. Gets kicked out of school.
Events are part of the story, events can change but the story can't change. The events are the things that happen. The story is what the book is about.
Think of it like a sandwhich, the full sandwhich is the story, but the ham, turkey, cheese, lettuce. Etc. are the events.
Best I could come up with to demonstrate how parts make up the whole, but each individual part isn't itself important, but taken as a whole, it gives you something to sink your teeth into.
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