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            I think that it should be okay to expose the issues in one family and give them problems in order to expose the problems of an entire people. It is okay for both historians and journalists to do this because there are instances where this is the only way to shine a light on some problem in society. The basic question here is do the problems of many outweigh the problems of one, and the answer is that they absolutely do. Although the bookseller himself might not like this, Seierstad had apparently helped a large amount of Afghan women. With regards to the limits of documentary and fiction, I believe that if you cannot add specific facts with evidence and proof to back them up, and if you aren’t drawing on secondhand stories and narrators with personal bias, then and only then you can call you work documentary or nonfiction. If you present ideas or stories that cannot be substantiated by something concrete, you have to call your work fiction.