I kinda had writer’s block, so I have posted this essay I wrote for intro to lit­er­a­ture. Sorry about this Pat, I’ll try again tomorrow.

Real­ity is all around us. We are real­ity; the writ­ing of this paper is real­ity as is the story of John Berendt’s “Mid­night in the Gar­den of Good and Evil.” Real­ity is what actu­ally hap­pens in real life and the pre­sen­ta­tion of real­ity is so fine that it sim­ply can­not be made up or fab­ri­cated. What makes Berendt’s pre­sen­ta­tion of his life in Savan­nah, Geor­gia is the skill­ful manip­u­la­tion and place­ment of just the right words to cre­ate a mas­ter­piece that repli­cates real life while main­tain­ing an edge – a curios­ity or hook as it may be. Books that are writ­ten non-​​fictitiously tend to be bor­ing, rec­ol­lect­ing the events in dull detail and lend­ing no part to action or sus­pense. On the other hand, books that are writ­ten fic­ti­tiously tend to quickly grab the reader’s atten­tion and draw the reader into an elab­o­rate plot where events seems to drop in and occur and just the right moment in time and space to keep the story going and the sus­pense high. Berendt has writ­ten a type of book that com­bines the authen­tic­ity, More >