A Girl’s Story, Crafting Fiction
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When stories are told, the aim is to convey important information without which survival would become problematic. The story talks about storytellers who may insist on narrating stories even when they do not have enough material. It goes on to elaborate survival when it presents a criticism of people who redesign other people’s stories and tell them as if they belonged to them. A Girl’s Story also contains a section where praises are given to storytellers who tell original stories and for the right reasons. No matter how well a story is presented, a good number have been told with an aim of survival as the discussion below explains, basing the argument on the story A Girl’s Story.
Stories are known to contribute to the survival. Some people talented in writing may continue writing just to survive, even when they become dry. In the story A Girl’s Story, crafting fiction is an arduous, complex task even to professional writers with whom large volumes of written work are associated. Because of this, a composing literary work for the sake of informing the society is a noble task, but one may be forced to compose merely for survival at times. The meaning is that the author may sit to write, not because the idea they want to express has crossed his or her mind, but because he or she wants to continue to make a living from the writing career. Plots may be easy to develop because the storyteller can just plagiarize another writer’s work. However, the real task lies at developing the details of the story and creating the characters. The latter is especially a winding path, one that may require much thinking and consideration. Several stereotypical features are known to make any given story appealing to the public. The story apparently purports this view when he claims the readers tends to enjoy are able to pick out any history or general media depicted by the author as being romantic, correct, or beautiful. Such an explanation is quite superficial. Underneath a narrator's confusion, there is an open criticism of the art of fiction crafting. The story reveals to the audience that storytellers may not be passing any message when they narrate a story; they might just be trying to survive. For example, through a delineation of a variety of aspects of storytelling, the story successfully makes a satire of the same. There is a claim that those with “a tendency to over consume alcohol” often lack content (Arnason, 1989).
The story talks about how one could easily steal plots from other great literature works. The tone is very bitter and almost disenchanted as this issue is elaborated. The real meaning is that a number of contemporary craftsmen of fiction steal from the past works shamelessly, regurgitating the fiction in a derivative, disgusting form. It goes on to criticize the process of publication, claiming that no matter how plagiarized a story is, eventually, it gets published. The frequent usage of stereotypic stories is also discussed, and there is a vehement criticism of the trend as a growing norm. Apparently, complains that the breathing room for originality and creativity has been overtaken by the desire for money abound. Nevertheless, the story quickly points out that such action is likely to result in the audience disliking the work. For instance, restrictions may be put on genuine fiction writers when malicious detractors disparage and attack their works constantly. AGirl’s Story is intentionally published with several grammatical errors to parody the horrific use of English in contemporary literature by storytellers who are only interested in survival. It is especially the true case in the realm of fictional writing. Overall, the message in A Girl’s Story is that storytelling has come close to being a constant formula, which only requires the storyteller to plug in highly predictable details to achieve his or her means—surviving.
Some storytellers may narrator because they consider the content and teachings of their stories as life and death information. For example, some storytellers desist to tell stories when they feel they are ‘dry’; they only tell stories when they feel there is important information they want to pass. If they do not have anything to narrate, they do not write and thus the temptation to plagiarize does not arise. In the story, some space is reserved to heap praises on fiction writers who have such an attitude (Arnason, 1989).
In conclusion, the story A Girl’s Story illustrates that stories can be linked to personal survival, proving Ingram’s observation true.