The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

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1. B (Various chapters)

2. C (Various chapters)

3. A (Various chapters)

4. D (Various chapters)

5. B (Various chapters)

6. C (Various chapters)

7. D (Various chapters)

8. A (Various chapters)

9. D (Various chapters)

10. A (Various chapters)

11. B (Chapters 1 and 2)

12. B (Various chapters)

13. D (Chapters 3 and 5)

14. C (Various chapters)

15. A (Various chapters)

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Long Answer

1. Photographs are a recurring motif in this book. Like stories, they record something meaningful to their creator, and this record can be passed to audiences across space and time. And also like stories, photographs can distort the “truth” in ways that are more powerful than empirical fact. (Various chapters)

2. Although King is keenly aware of how reductive dichotomous thinking can be, he cannot fully escape it and sometimes creates dichotomous categories of his own. He has absorbed a “story” about thinking from the culture around him, and despite his understanding of its dubious truth value, he struggles to escape its impact. (Various chapters)