History vs. Fiction
As we discussed Hayden White's mixing of fiction and history, I was struck by how similar history and fiction really are. "Good" fiction tries to be believeable to its readers, so that the reader can really understand the story and relate to the events. Think of The Hunger Games, Twilight, Harry Potter. They all tap into the characters, and try to make the characters seem as real as possible. Even though there isn’t magic in he world, with muggles and wizards (or is there?) or there isn’t a real hunger games where we all have to fight to the death, or there aren’t vampires and humans that can turn into werewolves, the stories don’t seem so crazy to us. We love reading the stories, and some people relate to the book characters more than the people around them. We compare ourselves to them, and try to imagine their plots and story lines. I don’t know if White was necessarily talking about this type of fiction, or if e was mostly addressing realistic fiction, but I think it ...