Authors Should Not Change Historic Facts Essay

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Many researchers have found in the past years that some of the stories about our heros, such as Paul Revere, have came up not true. In this text, I have found many things that are wrong in the text but when you research it, you find out something else. I think that authors should not change historic facts about ours heros because you're basically just lying to the audience about what happened, future generations won’t know what really happened, and the authors try to exaggerate too much about the hero's instead of honoring their memory.

First, I think that authors shouldn't change historic facts because they are basically lying to the audience about what really happened. Would you rather know what really happened or just know about part of …show more content…

If you change history, future generations are going to learn about part of what happened and that is just a waste of time if you aren’t learning about that facts. If any of the people that lived back when Paul Revere did, they wouldn’t let this happen. If you was the one that lived in Paul Revere’s time, would you want somebody changing the facts and lying to people about what really happened? No, you wouldn’t so why would you do that to …show more content…

Although changing a historic story about a hero to make it more interesting for children, they're not going to know what really happened as they get older. Once a lie is put out you will never get it back and then everyone will not know exactly what happened. Take the poem, The Midnight Ride by Paul Revere, for example, the text shows that it takes him three hours to ride through the whole town but when I figured it up it showed it took him double the time it said in the poem so that is a great example of how authors have changed history. Some would rather read an interesting story about a superhero that did all of these amazing things instead of knowing what that hero really

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