Explain How Fiction Has Changed My Perspective Of Literacy

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What do you believe the best genre is for literacy? Well, I believe that fiction is the one that interest me the most. Three reasons why I think fiction has changed my perspective in literacy is the creativity, my brother, and the Hunger Games series. People might not like fiction because people don’t like stories that are just too crazy such as like Star Wars (which everyone does like even though it’s fiction). Fiction is something that can just be really fun to read/write because of the realness or story being filled with so much adrenaline. Just let me tell you how fiction changed my views in reading and writing and how it can possible change your perspective.
In the article The Scholarship Boy and the author being Adam Lovell (1957) feels like the same as my main point in this. He talks about how mass media affected his life as he look at the newspaper. He wasn’t taught what was right or wrong but what
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Fiction is a genre that just gets me motivated to read because the stories have so much action to it. It just wants me to keep reading it to find out what happens next. Also the amount of creativity the author uses is beyond the limit. When you are writing fiction, your imagination is sometimes testing your limits of what you can think of to put in your story. Your imagination is what makes the best fiction story. Another reason why I love fiction stories is that it takes place in it’s own planet and immerses you in it. Like I said before The Great Gatsby, was one definitely one of the books that made me feel like I was with them and it made it feel like this story could happen in a real life situation. I also feel like writing a fictional story can show your true self in a sense. It could express what you like in a story or just in general and when people read that, they can learn more about

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