Q Directions: After reading the article and listening to the video on tension and conflict in this module, take several minutes to gather your thoughts about truth in fiction. What to Do: First, drawing on your reading of Porter Abbot's chapter on Truth in Fiction and my lecture explaining his ideas on the necessity of forgiving fiction's transgressions with "historical truth," and accepting that a fiction's "job" is to construct a narrative through which we can make sense of the world, choose one of this week's readings to explain how it provides you with a way to make sense of or give you a fresh perspective of some action(s) or events or emotional responses to what you have observed in your real or actual world. For example, "The Land of Oranges" might help you understand emotions or responses to being evicted form one's home or "You in America" might give you a new way of seeing being Black in a White world. Second, continue the conversation by engaging with at least two other students with 150 word (minimum) replies to their comments. Both your post and your replies should reference Perter Abbott's chapter and the fictional narrative you read. Your initial post is due by 11:59pm Thursday, February 24 and TWO replies by 11:59pm Saturday, February 26. Please see the rubric (link in upper right corner) to understand the grading for discussions. This topic was locked 26 Feb at 23:59.