If you’ve never read the book The Perfect Storm and/or never seen the movie, and you don’t want to know the ending, read no further.
Well, I’ve never seen the movie, but I do have to read the book this week for my Narrative Writing class. So my teacher emailed me some discussion questions:
This is a “true” story, yet everyone dies (sorry to give it away, but
that’s a fact and it was revealed in the movie). How “true” or nonfiction can it
be if everyone died?
Talk about a spoiler! So there you go. Everyone dies in the end. 
I saw the movie twice. DH has seen the movie multiple times although I don’t understand why. The writer obviously took the personalities of the crew & mixed it with what could have happened based on the sea conditions. Is it true? The only thing that is proven to be true is that they died. Other than that, unless it can be proven, it’s fiction (in my opinon). It made for an interesting movie though.
Lol! Not everybody dies in the movie! The main characters do…
I think when he said “everyone,” he meant the main people. That’s what I think he meant, anyway.
And if the main characters die, who’s telling the story? The people left behind, who don’t really know exactly what happened to the main characters, right? Interesting question. I would consider the story more “creative non-fiction” than a true story.
That’s exactly what my prof. said it is!
I really loved this book- it is creative non-fiction, but very well written. Even better, in some ways, was Linda Greenlaw’s “The Hungry Ocean” — Linda is mentioned in the book and portrayed in the film, but her book about being the only woman capt. of a swordfishing boat was fantastic. And so was Steaming to Bamboola. Can’t remember who wrote that one, but it’s about a Merchant Marine ship. Kind of went through a non-fiction ocean/boating/fishing phase a while back…