The truth is absolute, no exceptions. No matter what the circumstances, if the truth is changed, it ceases to exist and becomes fiction. In Rigoberta Mench´u;'s case, she has merely written a nice story that touches the heart. As a student who will soon be in college, I don't care about Rigoberta Mench´u;'s happy, little "reality". A lie is still a lie, and if I want to hear a lie I can make up my own. Her fictional story, even though written by a Peace prize winner, diminishes the actual plight of the Guatemalans. By making up her "truth", she states that the story of the people who were affected by the struggle between the Marxist and the capitalists was not worth telling. It had to be embellished and polished.
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