Crime Fiction In George Jonas's Vengeance

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George Jonas’s Vengeance utilises various conventions of crime fiction through the structure of his book though Vengeance is categorised as a non-fiction. Jonas structured Vengeance resembling to the events of the Munich Olympics Massacre and the action taken in regards to the massacre, which therefore, reflects to the idea of a realistic aspect and a crime perception involved in this novel, relating and sympathising to the statement of the usage of conventions of crime fiction in this non-fiction novel. Conventions such as using realistic setting through describing the novel in detail to give authenticity to the readers. Narrating the action in great details to describe the plotline realistically uses description of acts of violence. The characterisation through contrasting two events showing the protagonist being an outsider who is drawn by murder into an enclosed social environment. The novel is detailed through realistic aspects and consequently, demonstrates Vengeance as a non-fiction through involving different crime conventions.

Jonas describes the situations as realistic and detailed as possible, to the point that it resembles a crime fiction novel due to the realism aspects described specifically in detailed. Throughout the novel, Jonas uses various places such as …show more content…

Detailed acts of violence in his plotline were narrated, which was used to recount the events that took place originally, which notifies the readers that this is a non-fictional novel. Jonas also uses the protagonist characteristic of an outsider who is drawn to a closed environment through using analogy between his past events and his present, which consequently creates sympathy. Therefore, Jonas successfully used different conventions of crime fiction yet “Vengeance” is categorised as a non-fictional

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