Even more important, Anzin's story is identical to that of the film's fictional community.
In Sherwood Anderson's fictional community, as in nearly all primate societies, males are outstanding, if not always upstanding, members of the community.
Set in the fictional community of Tangierneck in the early 1930s, it unsparingly depicts the hunger, disease, racism and hard labor that were the stuff of daily life.
This book, though, is firmly planted in her homeland, in a fictional community whose comings and goings are less closely connected to any earthly immigrant destination than they are to the great beyond.
Plenty of the requirements Jacobs sets out for building a healthy and diverse urban community can be applied with real success to building a vivid and plausible fictional community.
They are based in the American midwest, in an unspecified location somewhere around the Dakotas, Minnesota and Illinois, and focus on the fictional community of Grouse County, where the civic fathers thought nothing of calling a town Boris or a thoroughfare Old Woman Springs Road.
Greene, although an enthusiastic traveller, seems not to have visited India, or if he did never lingered in the sleepy southern Indian towns that Mr Narayan depicted in Malgudi, the fictional community that is the setting for many of his novels.
Soap bosses hope viewers will warm to a strong family at the heart of the fictional community led by a "first couple", which delves into EastEnders' 28 years of history.
The idea was to put a technologic device at the center of a fictional community that is resistant to technology.
