10/15/07

An author's responsibilities to a reader while writing something as a memoir is to keep to the truth or as close to the truth with it still being true. It can't be far off from what really happened or else it wouldn't be true. Things such as names can be changed because as long as the character is real it's okay to use because sometimes a person doesn't want to have their name put into the writings. And things such as events can only be slightly altered but needs to remain true. It's not necessarily okay to make up characters or events all the time. If it doesn't make the story remain true than it's not okay to put in. However, if a person who is based off a character in the writing doesn't want to be in it it's okay to make up a character in that person's place as long as it doesn't drift off too much from the truth.