Do People Have More Acceptance Of Fictional Stories

Fictional stories allow people to have more empathy for the stories they read and allows people to have more insight on human behavior and society. Furthermore I truly think people will build up a wall to real stories and just pass it off as a ,it just happens because life sucks, type of deal but when it’s fictional people are more accepting of these stories and can fully invest themselves in them because they are tired of these depressing stories of real life instead they get a form of an "escape" a sort of another world they can invest themselves in and have more empathy . For instance, All American boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely This is about a kid named Rashad and a kid named Quinn. Rashad was badly beaten by a police officer that assumed that Rashad was either stealing a bag of chips or hurting a lady that was in the store buying …show more content…
first of all, I think the story has a great significance because of how relevant it is in society. For instance, in 2015 statistics show that the rate of wrongful arrest is in fact increasing.Nonfiction needs to be included in the current curriculum because people need people need to learn about social abuse police brutality and abusive profiling.Racial police abuse their power all the time in 2015 149 people were wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t do police are too quick to arrest an individual just based because they can. Profiling is a major issue people will be arrested for being some sort of threat even if they have done nothing wrong police need restrictions on what they can and cannot arrest. I also believe body cameras need to implement because they need proof they had a reason for arresting them.Police brutality is also fairly common police will beat or even kill individuals who aren’t armed and they suffer no consequences even if there