Historical Fiction Project
I have been reading a historical fiction book called ” How I Became an American.” It is about a boy from Heimburg, Siebenbürgen, part of Austria-Hungary. This is a good example of historical fiction because it has a lot of history involved. The author had to study geography because the family had to travel a lot of places and she has to track them. Also, the author had to study history to know how the town was founded. The author has also used a lot of detail and to me, detail is very important. She also had to learn their language spoken.
In terms of writing, I think it is pretty good. She used similies and metaphors and the story is very intruiging. I suggest you read it.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
How about a couple of quotes from the book to show the good writing?
January 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
c16tf, I liked your blog post. You wrote about the language in the book, which was a bit different from how I did mine. I wrote a main summary of the beginning of the book to get people interested.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Dear c16tf I think that you wrote a very nice post. I like that you say “the author” in the post. I also agree with c16tk that you wrote about the langauge instead of a summary.