Fiction Division and Classification

Fiction There are many different types of fiction. Many people confuse these different types of fiction and classify fiction books into incorrect groups. To help better understand fiction they would have to know what types of fiction there are and what they’re like. These types of fiction include realistic fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction. Realistic fiction refers to stories that might really happen, stories set in a particular time and that happen to a particular people. The plot of a realistic story focuses on everyday problems, pleasures and personal relationships and the setting seems as real as the world we know. Realistic fiction often allows the reader to identify with characters who are their own age and who have the same interests or problems. Examples of realistic fiction would be books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This is a book about a boy who finds life hard and writes about it in his diary. The events in this book could all actually happen, therefore classifying it as realistic fiction. Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science, which are important scientific laws and theories. Science fiction is not “realistic” in the sense that you can have aliens and futuristic technologies in it. Science fiction is largely based on writing about possible worlds or futures. An example of one science fiction book would be The Hunger Games series. They have such things like hover planes and force fields that could be possible in the future if invented. Historical fiction is a story that could occur in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical people, but the main characters tend to be fictional. In some historical fiction, famous events appear from points of view of these characters. However, in order for a book to be