Summary: The Three R's Of Narrative Nonfiction

The art of denouncing has been mastered in literature through the years. Authors are slammed with unfair claims because of little white lies told in memoirs. Tracy Ross’ memoir, The Source of All Things has a common value of coming to terms with the truth to provide healing. Although literary scholars conclude that memoirs have a blurred line between fiction and nonfiction, the value of the memoir does not change because there is still healing provided for the author, and people who went through a similar circumstance would see that there is always hope to overcome their struggles. This is proven through the essays By the Book by Hilary Mantel and The Three R’s of Narrative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind. The memoir still holds its purpose. If an author's main purpose in writing a book is to deal emotional events that happened in their past, how can
And it is very clear in today's society that we do not live in a perfect world. Some other sources may say that if there are lies within a story, how could someone cope with a lie? Regardless, whether or not an event is true, if someone went through a tragic event such as getting raped, molested, or anything with similar treachery anyway possible to receive closure should be allowed.
Truth or not, the value of a memoir is full of purpose. With the recent new of some memoirs not being fully true, the line between fiction and nonfiction has most definitely become blurred. Tracy Ross’ memoir, The Source of all Things has the common value of coming to terms with the past to give her closure. Evidently, the memoir still holds its purpose because she is receiving closure from the memoir, and her readers can feel hopeful through their struggleful times. And can it really be said that all non fiction books are true? New data is constantly being provided, which discredits the old “nonfiction”