The author of A fateful Journey uses historical fact from Moving to America in order to influence his story and its effect as a whole.
The author actively choses which historical facts will be used, which will be excluded but also if they need to be modified in order to make the reading more engaging or apealing to the reader. The result is what critics call historiographic metafiction.
Historical accounts describe the condition of the ship and the immigrants moving to America, giving details on how uncomfortable and crowded it was. The author uses this information to add realism to his story and make it look like a real historical account.
On the other hand, he also omitts other facts like the harsh reality faced by the immigrants including the hardship of the long trip, the feuds between immigrants of different nationalities and also the hard process of being questioned and admitted or excluded when landing on Ellis Island. Intead, the author focuses on the more positive aspects like the songs and dances and how the immigrants cheered together in orther to achieve a lighter mood.
