Americanhistory

  Christopher Franqui

      Ms.Defoe’s English class

"American History" takes place as a public crisis interferes with a personal one. What are 3 public crisis that have occurred during your lifetime that you feel could serve as the backdrop for a fictional story?

1. 9/11
2. hurricane Katrina
3. Major black out that hit the east coast.

Why is this fiction considered "realistic fiction"? Find examples that prove that it is realistic.
    This fiction is considered realistic fiction because it’s based on realistic events that take place in real times. Also since the character does nothing to ordinary such as landing on space crafts. Her story makes it vary real to the real. As thought you could be her.
“Since I had turned fourteen and started menstruating my mother had been more vigilant than ever.”
They say that the most important line in fiction writing is the last line of a fictional story. Read the last line of "American History" and explain how it helps to illuminate the theme within the story.
    The last line of this story helps to illuminate the theme that sometimes rosy things can turn into painful realities. In the case of John F Kennedy being assassinated. It was a painful reality that things in the nation weren’t as pleasant as they seemed. In protagonist case the realities that people will not always except you for who you are. Along with the realities that love is not blind. Her crush on Eugene sees its end and with it. The realities that like the presidency of John F.Kennedy. The dreams that and realities that might have been something are swept away.