Literary Fiction and Empathy

Reading fiction can help you understand other by anticipating effects of evens on characters and putting all the emotions into perspective with everyday life in our own reality. It can help relate to the internal struggles and thoughts of yourself by comparing what you would or wouldn't do in a real life situation. As literary fiction is false it does have a truth behind it which contributes to the maternal thought process about ourselves. This is most likely why the case study showed an increase of performance on tests because you have already started your thought process.