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The autobiographer proposes to explain his life to us and thus commits himself to maintaining a close connection between the story he tells and what an objective investigation might discover. When we read autobiography, however, we are always aware that the author is telling us only part of the story, that he has selected his material so as to present us with the picture of himself he would prefer us to have and that he may have ignored what would be trivial or distasteful to him, though of great interest to us.
The differences between these forms lie both in the perspective from which the work is undertaken and in the methods used. The writer of fiction is not, of course, concerned with fact at all, but rather with dramatic and emotional impact, with form and imagery, with the creation of a symbolic and artistically unified world. Fidelity to the world as it exists is only one of many problems for him, and for many authors it is of little importance. The autobiographer proposes to explain his life to us and thus commits himself to maintaining a close connection between the story he tells and what an objective investigation might discover.
5 In order to illustrate the value of the “own story” in the study of the feelings and attitudes of the delinquent, a limited number of excerpts from the life-records of delinquent boys are presented. Case 1 is that of a fourteen-year-old boy who was brought to the juvenile court repeatedly on charges of habitual truancy from home, picking pockets, and shoplifting. His career in delinquency began at an early age in the form of truancy. While truanting from home he became a member of a gang of older boys who were engaged in shoplifting and picking pockets.