The value of Fiction

The Value of Fiction

Making the Case

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The Value of Fiction

Making the Case

Fiction provides an extremely intrinsic psychological value to persons that wish to temporarily escape the current state of individual and collective affairs in terms of coping via escaping through reading it should be noted that this is an extremely healthy way of dealing with minor or major stress . From small assaults on one 's character to being embedded in a country during wartime , the depersonalization

and derealization that comes from the act of putting one 's own immediate problems to the side and taking on the feelings and identity of a strong fictional character , the value of fiction can be classed as therapy . It goes without saying , that reading is surely a more healthy way to detach oneself from current issues than other more unhealthy ways of coping such as drinking alcohol or even excessively rationalizing problems through reading works of nonfiction . For a scholar , a soldier , a sick and dying individual excessive stress and research on life and life matters can be taxing and could put one 's own life or , at the least- career- at risk . Therefore , the availability of both fiction and nonfiction material should be accessible to all people with problems relatively great or small . In the current war on terror , there exists a great divide in the identities of what can be loosely claimed as enemies . When looking at nonfiction works and media...