Reading it now, we see how each day's discovery by the paper's readers also neatly mirrors the fictional Herschel's nightly observations.
In the ensuing trial, Asturias served as a legal secretary and so, as Gregory Rabassa's biographical sketch points out, he had the opportunity to base his own fictional leader the President on his observations of the disgraced Guatemalan dictator.
Much of the book's power, in fact, comes from the way it brings together these different fictional genres and the values — observation, feeling, erudition — to which they're linked.
We suggest that one way to begin to learn personality observation may be through watching fictional movies and rate personality features based on observation of one or more main characters.
Mr. Toscani's observations went into creating the fictional character.
Much of "Side Effects" is fictional, she says, but many of its observations are true to life.
The program, which began in 1974, is a mix of music and Mr. Keillor's comic observations on life in his fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon.
Graham Greene memorably began his fictional account of Haiti, "The Comedians," with an observation upon entering the evening harbor of Port-au-Prince: "Impossible to deepen that night".
Anderson goes down the wrong rabbit hole by relying on anecdotal observations of "Ben" an anonymized (or perhaps fictional) character (at pp. 3-5).
The nature of video observation in schools is much more collaborative than its fictional counterpart.
