Stranger Than Fiction

To be an author means being the writer of a paper or story, but being a narrator means to be the person telling a story. There are distinct differences between the two. Being an author doesn't necessarily mean you're a narrator. You could be writing about many different things. For example, as the author of a research paper I didn't narrate a story, I just stated facts. My paper was simply to inform others. On the other hand, a narrator tells a story when writing. In the movie Stranger Than Fiction, the author told the story of Harold Crick. She wrote about a "fictional" character that turned out to be a real person whose life she happened to be narrating. She was providing a spoken commentary of his life and day to day activities.

Being an author isn't as easy as it seems. After writing my research paper, I realized it takes a lot of time and effort. I think the impact of my paper is that it will give others an insight on what elderly abuse is and how to detect and report it so it doesn't remain an over-looked and unreported problem.