MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Fiction is a means of seeing life through the art of storytelling. By reading fiction, you are seeing life through the eyes of someone else in a way that you can (or in some cases cannot) identify with. That's not to say that you'll relate to every single story you read, but within every story you will most likely encounter something that calls out to you—a theme, concept, or emotion—that will help you see yourself more clearly.
Emotions expressed in the fictional story should be reflective of a univer- sal theme. We find these reflections in novels, short stories, plays, and poems. When we read this kind of literature, we are really looking for pieces of ourselves. Do we really care about a bunch of fishermen chas- ing after a whale? Perhaps not, but we do care about battling our inner demons. Do we care about a woman branded with a scarlet letter/f on her dress? Maybe ... or maybe not ... but we do care about injustice within society. This is why we ead fiction: to dig out the bits and pieces of what we do care about and relate them to our own existence.