Characteristics and Similarities Between Realistic and Historical Fiction

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Realistic fiction	Similarities between the Realistic and Historic	Historical fiction
Realistic fiction is the outcome of the real situation which happens in one’s life.	Both in realistic and historical fiction the characters and settings resemble the real life	Historical fiction is the outcome of the story which happened in the past.
The characters in realistic fiction bear resemblance to the people in true life.	When the readers go through realistic and historical fiction they feel that these events happened in their own life. The authors illustrate these events to the readers in an effective way through their works.	The characters and settings in historical fiction have a resemblance with the people in history.
Realistic fiction deals with people who face tribulations and their challenges to overcome the situation in their life.	While reading this, the readers have a complete awareness of both present and past situations.	Historical fiction deals with past principles, merits of that period and avoids changing events that usually happen at present.
If in realistic fiction the writer tells about the story of a village, the language which is used in the work should be the same as the people in the village speak and the settings should be likewise.	In both realistic and historical fiction, the author depicts the character, culture, nature, etc of the society. Through this work, the readers have a complete vision of the historical events and it will be a precious asset in their life.	In historical fiction, the writer tells about the story of historical characters and events but there can be a real change for the advantage of the story. While writing historical fiction, the writer should beware that he should not include the modern point of view in his work.

In the literary work entitled “Essentials of Young Adult Literature”, the author Carl M. Tomlinson gives an elaborate and clear picture of adolescent literature. This book gives a comprehensive analysis of the major troubles and issues of young adult literature. Carl M. Tomlinson, in his book “Essentials of Young Adult Literature”, mainly concentrated on all types of literary works like novels, drama, short stories, for all types of readers. It mostly helped the teachers and students of the present and it will be effective to the future generation too. It also “Provides practical strategies for connecting secondary school students with young adult books, such as how to select books that students will read and enjoy, how to motivate resistant readers to read, and how to develop text sets for classroom study across the curriculum”. (Tomlinson, & Lynch-Brown, 2009, para.3). This book helps the readers to have an awareness of all the issues which happen at present or happened in the past. Each and every chapter of the book discusses the history of a particular kind of literary work. Also, the readers get a complete vision of the character, culture, community, nature, etc in the past and present conditions. While reading historical fiction, students will go through several kinds of topics that are unknown to them. So, they will have the tendency to know more about it and in order to understand its historical background they will refer and read more books. While reading realistic and historical fiction they can compare and contrast the situations of the present with the past. Through this, the students can develop their knowledge and thereby increase their reading skill and understand the qualities of literary work.

Reference List

Tomlinson, C M., & Lynch-Brown, C. (2009). Essential of young adult literature. 2^nd ed., Infibeam. Web.