Realistic Fiction In Sharon M. Draper's Out Of My Mind

Healthy people will never know the feeling of people with congenital problems until they look into realistic fictions. According to Huck, “Realistic fiction helps children enlarge their frames of reference while seeing the world from another perspective” (Huck, p.201), those fictions help children have better understanding of human experiences. Example like Out of My Mind, Melody cannot walk or talk. Although Melody is a pure fictional character in Sharon M. Draper’s book, there are tons of similar cases like her. There are lots of other people with all kinds of disability in this world. Without directly contacting with them, normal people are hard to truly understand the feeling of the unfortunates. From Huck’s, “Realistic fiction can also illuminate experiences that children have not had” (Huck, p.203), contemporary realistic friction can reduce the estrangement between them. …show more content…
Like Huck states in book, “Children’s books have always reflected the general social and human values of a society, so it is not surprising that they are also scrutinized for implied attitudes or biases of that society” (Huck, p.205), no one can promise that there are no bias or stereotyping in contemporary realistic fictions. So children without the independent thinking skills are easy to be guided tendentiously. However children who are capable to think by themselves should be introduced to realistic fictions. Following realistic frictions, those children can learn real experiences from realistic frictions including how to get along with families and friends, how to survival in the wilderness, or how to deal with difficulties towards