From Long Walk to Freedom by NELSON MANDELA. What is Nonfiction? Writing about real people, places, and events –Biography –Autobiography –Essay –Informative.

From Long Walk to Freedom

by NELSON MANDELA

What is Nonfiction?

• Writing about real people, places, and events– Biography– Autobiography– Essay– Informative Article– Interview

Autobiography

• The story of a person’s life

• Told by that person

• First-person point of view

• Normally book length to cover whole life

• Shorter versions:– Journals, diaries, letters, and memoirs

Biography

• The story of a person’s life

• Told by someone else

• Contains same elements as fiction– Plot, character, and setting

Main Idea and Supporting Details

• Most nonfiction focuses on a main idea.

• Main idea is the most important point or message that the writer wants to communicate.

• Supporting Details give more information about the main idea.

Main Idea

Detail Detail Detail

resiliency

• Noun• The ability to recover

quickly from illness; change or misfortune

incomprehensible

Adj Not understandable

(hard to understand)

transitory

Adj Lasting only a short

time; temporary

curtailed (curtail)

• Adj (verb)

• Cut short

indivisible

• Adj

• Incapable of being divided