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It wasn't her responsibility just because she was there. There are billions of unrecorded stories, it's not like she left her under a rock to die or something.
by cm2012 9y ago
It wasn't her responsibility just because she was there. There are billions of unrecorded stories, it's not like she left her under a rock to die or something.
- SiempreViernes 9y agoWell sure, but this is only true if the author is not making any claims about the accuracy of the first story. If you are selling the story as a ”true” account, then willfully neglecting such important supporting evidence is really the closest you can come to writing fiction outright.
- cm2012 9y agoI'm responding to the above paragraph, which editorializes: > "The loss of Ms. Beren's story is tragic; that its loss occurred through Hurston's intentional neglect is infuriating." The comment is about the tragedy of the loss of the 2nd survivor's story itself.
- hnaccy 9y agoShe knowingly perpetuated the falsehood that he was the last survivor.