Imagination plays a crucial role in the creation of communities and its identity. The fiction, in this case, will cover both the absolute fabrications and the prejudices in the discourse of the narration of the story. The story can be malleable in the hands of narrators, which they use to rally their audiences around a common interpretation of their story. Alicia Barber, author of the essay Local Places, National Spaces: Public Memory, Community Identity and Landscape at Scotts Bluff National Monument, discusses two communities' disagreement over the proper use and maintenance of a tourist location. Barber analyzes the community's relationship with the monument and how this affects the discourse of history telling, the malleability of public memory, and how all of this relates to community identity. Michael Ignatieff wrote about a civil struggle between two groups who identify very differently from each other. In his analysis, he mixed his personal account of the situation, explaining the role of narcissism in the discourse of telling the story. His essay, The Warrior's Honor: Ethic War and the Modern Conscience, describes a more radical conflict based on fabricated major differences. These two authors describe two very different approaches to their conflicts, but their discourse on telling their story is similar. Their fabrications and biased narratives come from their self-centered imagination that supports their identity. The role of imagination in the identity of a community allows its members to associate their history with their identity. Patriotism, supported by history, strengthens the bonds that bind a community together as a group. Barber explains in the statement below how a community's involvement in history plays a role in telling its story. “What... middle of paper ......s about their “imagined community” and “their imagined image” constitute their identity. These differences would not exist without their narcissistic imaginations which inevitably form fictions drawn from history. But because of their refusal to recognize the relational differences of the other group, major differences arise from their actions. Nationalism depends on these imaginations; it uses group self-esteem to claim its position in history, recount it in its narcissistic discourse, and blind members from relational differences that would weaken their identity as a group. Works Cited Barber, Alicia. “Local Places, National Spaces: Public Memory, Community Identity, and Landscape at Scotts Bluff National Monument.” American Studies 45 (2004): 35-64. Ignatieff, Michael. Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and Modern Consciousness. New York: Henry Holt and company, 1997.