History & Fiction

To me, History and Fiction are opposites. History is all about stating factual stories of what happened in the past, whether it’s about people, a place, an event, or an idea. Anything that brought controversy to the world and gathered significance, is what is usually brought up in history. Fiction on the other hand, has no truth to the story being told. It can be based off of real ideas, but it does not represent or tell true stories of the past. Writers of fiction create an imaginary story, while historians report on what actually happened. With fiction, the writer’s goal is usually to express something revolving around the human experience. Fear, love, dreams, success, and other elements of what humans live through are told in fiction stories. The goal is to teach some lesson or some story about the influence of life experiences on humans and the influence others have on us and vice versa. With history, these events from the past that are recalled have gathered significance because of the effects these events and people have had on the world. So what History and Fiction have in common is that they both are a story of how people react to the environment around them, except one is true and one is not. Both are usually intended to teach a lesson.