What are the differences between fiction and non-fiction when it comes to how they explore and communicate the experience of being in the world? Which is more effective?

This question asks readers to engage, critically and thoughtfully, with one of the book’s key thematic considerations. The text contends that fiction shapes reality and gives it an artificial meaning, while non-fiction investigates and interprets reality, giving it a truer and more lived meaning. The question asks readers to explore which version of understanding and exploring reality is more relevant to their own experience of reality, and which style of narrative might be considered the truest, most valid form of art.  

In the section of the book containing chapters a and b, the text references “the tightrope walk along the margin between the newspaper report and the poetic vision” (15). What are the qualities associated with each sort of writing? How are their perspectives and intentions different? How are they the same?