AD Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People
should read those books that are about real events, real people, and
established facts. Use specific reasons and details to support your
opinion.
The Important of Fiction
How could anyone suggest that people should only read about real events, real
people, and established facts? For one thing, that means people wouldn?t be
reading half of all the great books that have ever been written, not to mention
the plays, short stories and poetry. For another, it would mean that people?s
imaginations would not develop as children and would remain dulled throughout
their lives.
Reading stories as a child helps develop our creativity by reaching us a lot about
how to use words to create mental images. It open our world up, exposing us to
other times and different ways of living. Reading histories of those times would
serve kind of the same purpose, but it probably wouldn?t stick in our minds as
sharply. Reading an essay about poverty in Victorian England is not the same
thing as reading in Charles Dicken?s Ol
iver Twist. The images of a small boy
being sold are more horrifying than simply reading the statement, “children
were sold into labor “because a novel makes that small boy seem real to
understanding fiction makes a more lasting impression on our minds and
emotions.