Venture Smith

Name: Professor's name: Course: Date: Venture Smith Non-fiction literary works feature a wide range of genres and styles that allow authors to explore different non-fiction forms to express their equally unique purposes for writing to their audiences. Among the genres in these types of works in creative writing is narrative non-fiction through which authors tell trues stories to convey their experiences of certain ordeals or events in life. Venture Smith's autobiography, A Narrative of the Life and adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States. Related by Himself, excellent example of a non-fiction narrative recounting the author's personal experience of slavery in the United States. Published in 1798 in Connecticut, the autobiography embraces different non-fiction forms or storytelling techniques to narrate the author's ordeal in slavery through the hands of Robertson Mumford and his son James Mumford. The use of real characters is one of the non-fiction forms the author employs in recounting and relaying the painful ordeal of his life in slavery. Another non-fiction form explored throughout the text is the use of vivid descriptions of some of the ordeals he experiences in the hands of the slave masters. A literary analysis explores the use of real characters and vivid descriptions in Venture Smith's autobiography to showcase the roles of such techniques in developing and presenting the intended message or purpose to the audience in non-fiction literary work. Venture Smith's autobiography narrates the harsh realities of life in slavery through the non-fiction form of real characters in Robertson and James Mumford. He also includes himself as the main character in the non-fiction narrative to sum up the three non-fiction characters he uses to tell the story of his life in slavery. It is clear from the title, A Narrative of the Life and adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States. Related by Himself, that it is the character by the name Ventur...