FICTION

Fiction is related to fantasy, invention, falsehood, untruth and narrative story with appropriate illustration, agree or disagree?

ANSWER
In an attempt to discuss this issue, one can not rule out the possibility of debate – with thorough description which might never leave one side of the argument less significant or less discuss as the case may be. It would still be seen that as one would willingly take side, one can not leave the other side unmentioned. This bring us to what literature is about, being the formation to which fiction is a part

Literature mirrors life. It is not life in itself but act as a replay of life by using the aspect of human life to teach and entertain them. To this end, FICTION, as one aspect of literature, regarded as fantasy, invention, falsehood, untruth and narrative story couldn’t be true in all totality. Though, the aspect that is fantasy, invention and all is induced from the point that it’s regarded as the writer’s imagination. This assertion is truth because it is believed that whatever a fiction writer writes first live in his mind. To further this, most character use in fiction is not real while some pretend to be only to create a credible story.

However, the term FICTION is regarded as misnormal because it has element of truth to some reasonable degree. For example, The Beautyful One Are Not Yet Born by AYI KWEI ARMAH, being the focal-point here, illuminates the idea of both reality and that of non-reality. The story which centred on a society full of corruption to the essence that it filtered down to all levels of life; the economic relationship based on intimidation and bribery as described with such vivid illustration of the physical environment in which The Man, his her, lives conveying decay and filth which no question about the credibility of the story that relates Ghana society and it poverty stricken could look at in two ways. The use of scent, the smell of physical rot in that society is real and can be seen but in the context of supposed corruption it could be regarded as writer only way of describing under-developed society of Ghana.

The first chapter of the book portrayed both element of reality and non-reality. The reality can be seen; first, the attempt of the driver to lit his cigarette, and afterward, caught it quickly with the end of it before it died, cleared his throat and spat out a generous gob of mucus against the tire, and began unhurriedly to inhale his smoke. This kind of situation is norm among these people.

Also in this chapter, we could see the conductor counting his money continuously and the eventual separation of the money into little piles. The part that he returned passenger’s balance is reality; however, the vivid description of the conductor attitude towards the man who did not recognized he was given less-balance is fictitious

The frightened nature of the conductor toward the man at the back who appeared to be the onlooker whereas was deep asleep is also fictitious. A conductor in actual fact does not have time re-examine life. Though, corruption filtered round all levels of life, the real corrupt act is found among people who understand rules and regulations and use same to suit themselves

The last part of the book is fictitious in nature. Majority of the story or the description of event as they unfold could be as the writer’s account of escape. Though, they look real in it context but it couldn’t be that finely crafted. The choice of escape having to take the route of a less develop part of the society was a way to portray it as an abandoned project by the people who ought to have developed it. This is real in it entirety but the use of the man latrine’s hole, and vivid description of that escape is his own account because, he made the hero of the man who helped Koomson to escape. Also in this, regard the driver and the policemen; the scene portrayed reality but the choice of the scene to the hero is not. It is the writer’s choice as well to illustrate the society after a new government is inaugurated having toppled the first. The inscription by the Artist as THE BEAUTYFUL ONE ARE NOT YET BORN wouldn’t have being so fast- thought afterward. The new administration is barely months. It is, therefore, simply used to show that nothing has changed, and that future is blink.
The Man walked very slowly, going home.
The hero in the man can only be seen in the writer’s imagination of a clean man in such society. It did not with the man having to confront the society to liberate it. His innocence and withdraw nature made no sense to the society rather to himself, and possibly, his family; though, afterward entrusted him to Koomson as his last resort to escape making the eventual hero.

In this sense, I can say that the book is fictitious because it is the writer’s account of Ghana society. However, the sense that it shouldn’t regarded as a credible or account as seen in the object of this debate referring FICTION as fantasy, invention, falsehood, untruth, and narrative story is not true to it entirety. Therefore, one can say fiction is not purely invention or work of imagination rather, it should be seen as a work that first looked vividly at the society, and give the society what it is or what it should be.