WRIT 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gay Talese, Creative Nonfiction, Other Voices, Other Rooms (Novel)
16 Jan 2018
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Exposition --> based on fact, very little fiction. Narrative --> story is being told, can occur in non-fiction. Scenes --> stop the exposition/narration and observe the characters talking to each other. o advances the plot o reveals character self. Frank mccourt"s angela"s ashes --> memoir, fictional techniques (?) Gay talese: frank sinatra has a cold --> he was not allowed to meet sinatra but observed him walking around and his entourage. Though often reading like fiction, it is not fiction. His mother was lillie mae and later became nina. She was highly ambitious for money and social standing. o truman took his mother"s new husband"s last name and changed to capote as he was a father figure to him. His father, arch, was also ambitious, a small-time hustler. Capote was abandoned at various times by both parents. His neighbour and friend of those days was harper lee (to kill a.
