September 2019 LSAT Section 3 Question 11

Which one of the following is a principle applied to historical fiction in passage A that the author of passage B wou...

shafieiava on May 24, 2020

B versus A

Can someone explain why B is wrong and A is correct here? I felt that line 21 in passage A supported answer choice B, and couldn’t find the same principle in Passage B. Thanks in advance.

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shafieiava on May 24, 2020

Okay, now I am seeing support for answer choice B in passage B as well-- lines 41-43? Can someone confirm my understanding and please still explain what evidence they used to come at the correct answer, answer choice A?

Emil-Kunkin on September 29, 2022

B's whole point is that objective truth can take a back seat to subjective perception, which is to say that a mistaken version of events is not unforgivable, and is even at times preferable. The main issue with answer choice B is that A does not think that good narrative requires lying, only that good historical fiction does. We have no idea how A would apply this to genres that do not require one to invent details that are lost to history.