Reflection 7

I think for a book to be labeled non-fiction it has to be at least 75% true. I think that the 25% that isn’t true shouldn’t change the overall feeling of the story. If it is 95%-100% true it can be called a memoir. Even though there is a 5% that isn’t true as long as that 5% only slightly bends what happened in reality to better help the reader understand how the author felt than that’s okay. Besides pretty much every book has at least one aspect, as small as it may be, that isn’t true. If a book is any less than 50% true it should be called a realistic fiction because if the story came from something that happened then it is realistic but if up to half of the book is made up or bent than its fiction. I think that even though genres can cause people to pass by a book they help give the reader a better understanding and connection to the story. If the story is labeled as a memoir than it should be a true memoir, not partially true and partially made up to spice up there life. If someone like David Shields doesn’t care about how true or how plagiarized the story is than they don’t have to look at the genre labels.