Re: Trip to Hanoi Questions

In response to questions about Trip to Hanoi, I don't necessarily think that "more real" writing of any more importance than fiction. However, I think a lot of us tend to see the real stuff as more meaningful. Fiction brings us into a world of imagination but nonfiction is what is really real. To me personally, I tend to question the works of fiction because although there may be meaning and such behind it, I know it isn't real and tend to regard it as not as important or significant. I tend to put more emphasis on nonfiction work. That's not to say that I don't enjoy fiction because I think fiction is really strong because it we're able to think of and imagine things that we do not face in reality.

Another question is, is it common that there are non fiction works out there with a tad bit of fiction? Like we've discussed before, sometimes we tend to fill in gaps of our memory by putting in thoughts that we think happen because we don't remember. We hear things and see things so often that we begin to accept it as truth when maybe we don't really know if that's true. Also do we sometimes twist up stories to make it more interesting? Do we really believe that everything labeled non-fiction is the absolute truth with no sugarcoating or additions to make interesting?