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May 27, 2024 · Finally, historical fiction is important for its ability to empower our imaginations and our critical thinking skills. Like most types of literature, historical fiction is an outlet for our minds to play, to wonder, and to assess. By reading historical fiction, we can become better problem-solvers, more empathetic friends, and more aware ...
Of course, historical fiction can exploit the past—reducing the past to an exotic stage set. It frequently romanticizes, aestheticizes and simplifies the past and often include many anachronisms. Still other examples emphasize “the venal, the grim, the shadowy and the dark.”. These are among the reasons that academic historians distance ...
Apr 24, 2017 · Among the many books we’ve read have been several historical novels: One Crazy Summer (set in 1968 Oakland), Esperanza Rising (Mexico and California during the Great Depression), Moon Over Manifest (1930s Kansas), Chains (Revolutionary War) among others. An unintended benefit of having read so much historical fiction with these kids is that ...
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Historical fiction can also put history into perspective for the reader. By the time I left elementary school, I had a basic understanding of the order of events that occurred in U.S. history. I knew the American Revolution came before the Civil War, pioneers lived in the 1800s, and the Great Depression was quickly followed by World War II. Having ...
If one of your reading priorities is to continue lifelong learning, historical fiction should be a part of your reading life. Retelling history from the perspective of fictional characters can create an emotional connection to past events. By experiencing history through the eyes of characters I care about, I gain a greater understanding of differe...
As an adult, continuing to read historical fiction has opened my eyes to new time periods I knew nothing about. History class can only teach you so much. In the U.S. so much of our high school social studies focuses on American history and government. One author who has really opened my eyes to new history is Ruta Sepetys. Her novel “Salt to the Se...
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Feb 3, 2022 · When you read a historical fiction book, you also consume an enormous amount of information on the subject you're reading about. Plus, whenever you read a novel, you have to remember tons of information about the story's plot and subplots, the characters and their relationships, and the environment in which the story takes place.
Nov 10, 2016 · The power of the fictional account stems from the invented world that spreads beyond the narrow stream of words that we read upon the page, from its desire to force the characters to act on a set that is loyal to sequential time. On every page of the historical novel, a clock is ticking, even if we do not hear it.
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Sep 14, 2016 · Cliché, perhaps, but historical fiction does ‘make history alive.’. Through narrative, details, dialogue, scene description, a reader feels more connected with the story then through a straight-up historic text. Makes you WANT to read the ‘real story.’. Upon my next bookstore outing, I will be picking up a copy of Houdini’s biography.
