LITERARY FICTION & EMPATHY

Reading fiction can help me understand others by improving my social and perception skills. The perspective given by the book can help people look at their own perspective and reevaluate how they can continue to go about their life. For example, Hamlet is kind of like me but ten times worse. Overly critical of themselves when they really don’t need to be so harsh. I guess it goes for girls in general to be overly critical of themselves but that is how I relate to Hamlet. He really feels strongly about the choices of others and doesn’t really focus on his own problem, which is similar to myself.