Master Class: Monday
30 08 2010Answer me this: what is the difference between a fictionalised story and a fictional story?
Use examples in your answer. Try to keep this answer between twenty-five and fifty words.
Red Space Rocket
Mr O'Meara @ Western Heights College
A fictional story is a type of text based on imagination in its entirety. The characters and the events are both entirely untrue. A fictionalised story, however, is a type of text that has been based on events and characters who exist, or have exited, but has been altered.
Examples:
Fictional: Hare and the Tortoise, Romeo and Juliet, Harry Potter, Snakes on a Plane, Avatar.
Fictionalised: Da Vinci Code, Dante’s Peak, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, NASA Moon Landing.
I’m not sure that these descriptions are correct, however, I decided to take a stab at it.
Travis, these descriptions are excellent. Perhaps the moon landing is fictionalised, but I think any discussion should mention that as a theory or possibility rather than a given.
I’m glad. I wasn’t quite sure, so I just assumed those were their meanings.
Addtionally, I decided to throw in an anti-NASA reference, not a huge fan.
As far as I know, those are the meanings. As for NASA, you are perfectly welcome to your feelings about all space travel agencies.