Final Forum: Question 1

[tatumzeller]

-Do you think there is a difference between reading a true crime book and reading a violent fiction book? Do you feel different while reading one as compared to the other?
 
I definitely think that there is a difference between reading a true crime book and reading a violent fiction book. The major difference is obviously the fact that one is true and the other is not true. Even though they both sound like they are fictional, a true crime novel really did happen. I think the style that Capote wrote this book was a very wise decagon because it keeps readers interested and it builds emotional ties between the reader and the victims in the book because of the way it was written. While reading this book I definitely do feel differently than I would reading a fictional book. Even thought this book sounds the same it is just crazy to me to know the all the horrific events in the book really did happen, because of that I do feel different, if it was fictional I probably would not feel any diffrent because I know then that it os not true.  

[mollybeerman]

I agree with you completely on this but to add to it I would say that in a violent fiction book it is based on events that have occurred and vise versa. True crime comes from what the criminals have encountered and what they have seen and some of that could have been from these violent fiction books. Violent fiction books come from bits and pieces of true crime so I belive they are based on eachother. Although this is not always the case, some of the violent crime books can be based on pure imagination and true crime can be thought of from a criminals abstract point of view. Therefore this does not always apply.