Fiction And The Imagination Analysis

The Connection between Fiction and the Imagination Reading a story to your child, spouse or reading alone sometimes release a sense of adventure, depending on the story. Many individuals use stories to learn their history, talk about their experiences, or to fantasize about a world beyond the one they live in. It does not matter why individuals decide to read, as long as the story changes some part of them by the end of the story. Stories are used to open minds of individuals that are unable to travel, or to give a person the life they are striving to have. Reading stories, fictional or nonfictional, brings life to blank pieces of paper that would be overlooked for the convenience of the modern day television. While individuals indulge in both fiction and nonfiction to expand their imaginations, fictional stories gives readers the chance to use their imaginations to recreate different scenes and characters of the story. According to Schakel, Ridl 2012, fiction refers to “narrated stories that are drawn from the imagination or are an imaginative reworking of actual experiences” (108). Imagination is used when …show more content…
When most individuals pick up a book, it is to entertain themselves. Entertainment can come in many forms, such as action, drama, conflicts, or romance. Everything that is listed can be used to fill the emotional needs of a reader, which will allow the reader to escape into another world. Words helps individuals take tips around the world as a FBI secret spy, or fall in love with the hot young boy next door. All are things that the average person would only day dream about, but stories and books are ways to live the life the can only be dreamed of. Imagination is the only way that reader can be “in medias res” (Schakel, Ridl, 117) without breaking laws or being in actually physical