The real world of fiction

When I read Bizz’s blog before attending our last class, my first response was something like this: well, of course he’s not real. This is a fiction book, isn’t it? None of it is real. After reading all of Bizz’s blog, I realized that the real question is whether or not the poet is not real in the novel’s reality. I think. Either way, I think many readers always feel a little jipped when we find out that fictional characters don’t really exist in the novel. It’s like the author isn’t playing the game of pretend right. We are thrown back into our own reality where the book is a work of fiction, and it is unexpected. We don’t like leaving the lies behind on someone else’s terms.