Removing true character arcing in this manner usually guts the biograph of its luster, turning the youthful memoir into a singular evidence of the author’s arrogance-a twenty-year-old man who tells you where his story is headed is full-up on the kind of hubris that pretends that we are the masters of our destinies’ directions.Īlan’s War, while avoiding this pitfall, provides pretty strong evidence for why autobiography is often foolish. Because a reader is primarily prompted to read biographical non-fiction for its interaction with real life and real events, the story loses its most powerful draw by fictionalizing its subject. The author’s avatar is a fiction because the author, not having a perspective outside himself, has not really the ability to determine plot and direction and who his character actually is or will be. One of the biggest hurdles of autobiography and memoir is that by virtue of the author’s life not being complete, the character portrayed must be a fiction.
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