Write a topic sentence for your paragraph that will compare the strengths of fiction and nonfiction.

Authors choose a genre based on their purpose. Fiction works well for teaching a lesson, as in fables. However, presenting facts and opinions in nonfiction might be a better way to present information. When authors begin to write, they think about what they want the reader to understand or experience. While fiction may be the best genre for storytelling, nonfiction may be the most clear for sharing facts, so both genres have merits.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.