Animal Dreams Paper

So I sat down today and managed to completely finish my Animal Dreams paper and felt I should reflect on it a little. The topic I chose to write about was the one dealing with the history of the Nicaraguan conflict and how it was portrayed in the book. On my first reading of the book I was completely appaled with how Kingsolver described this conflict and US involvement. I thought to myself "Surely this is exaggerated, this just seems to crazy to be true." After reading the portion of the book dealing with National Guardsmen involvement I was convinced that the events were exaggerated, and I was right. Never has there ever been a reported incident of National Guardsmen gunning down little girls in dresses picking fruit from the sky. Just mentioning it out loud sounds rediculous, and I was not surprised to find that it did not ACTUALLY happen. Granted, Kingsolver's book is a work of Fiction, and she is entitled to interject her opinions into the storyline, but the National Guard? It was far too rediculous to be convincing. I'm willing to except the fact that possibly she has some kind of information that I was unable to find or do not possess that would describe an event such as this, but it is very hard to believe and until I'm shown otherwise I simply will view this part of the book as an opinion section. You have to expect authors to interject some politics or opinion into their stories, but to call the National Guard murderers is something else entirely.