From Long Walk to Freedom

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From Long Walk to Freedom

• by NELSON MANDELA

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What is Nonfiction?

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

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Autobiography

• The story of a persons life
• Told by that person
• First-person point of view
• Normally book length to cover whole life
• Shorter versions
• Journals, diaries, letters, and memoirs

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Biography

• The story of a persons life
• Told by someone else
• Contains same elements as fiction
• Plot, character, and setting

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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.

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resiliency

• Noun
• The ability to recover quickly from illness
  change or misfortune

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incomprehensible

• Adj
• Not understandable (hard to understand)

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transitory

• Adj
• Lasting only a short time temporary

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curtailed (curtail)

• Adj (verb)
• Cut short

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indivisible

• Adj
• Incapable of being divided