Shelagh Delaney's Short Story 'Abduction'

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Hopefully, we all know what it’s like to be a part of a family. It has its good sides and bad sides. You don’t choose your own family like you to choose your own friends. And so conflicts between family members can be hard, and create a lot of drama in the family. And in some cases these conflicts get way out of hand. Like the family, we hear about in the short story. Where the love between the family members are shown in a way that doesn´t help anyone and where jealousy and hate take over. You may ask yourself if love can kill. The short story “Abduction” is about a boy and his family and how things didn’t work out at all.

A woman who has it all - or so it seems. The English playwright Shelagh Delaney’s (born 1939) short story "Abduction" …show more content…

Fiction is defined as written stories about people and events that are not real: literature that tells stories which are imagined by the writer. Nonfiction is however based on true facts and a real story. Works of nonfiction are meant to be factual. This means magazine articles, newspaper stories, encyclopedia entries, interviews and textbooks are all nonfiction. Like the article “Adler’s Psychoanalytic ideas on development”. It contains a presentation of what Adler’s theory about sibling development in the family. Something which has happened. In “Abduction” we can see that it’s a fictional story because it contains elements of a story: plot, characters, settings, and themes. There is no facts or presentation of a theory. The best way to separate fiction from nonfiction is to identify which is fiction and which is not - stick to the facts. If there 's anything that can 't possibly be true, it 's fiction. But if you don 't know the truth, nonfiction can sometimes be identified based on the writing style. Nonfiction tends to presents information in a more straightforward way - often using years and dates as well as proper names of buildings, cities and people. However, fiction is written to create an illusion of the