Story Of Edward Sawtelle Analysis

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To begin with, reading fiction can reduce stress. With the right fiction one can escape the troubles or reality and just enjoy the relaxation. My mom takes an online college class and sometimes struggles to complete her work in time. Regardless she can always look forward to the evening when she can sit back, relax, and read her book, The Story of Edward Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. The author vividly recreates the pristine woods in an engaging story about young Edward Sawtelle’s family and their fictional breed of working dogs. When reading this, she can imagine herself walking through the pristine woods and living a whole new life. My point is that even though she has a lot of work at the end of the day, whenever she picks up her book, she can forget about her stressful schoolwork. My grandpa has high blood pressure. In my grandparent’s home, there is a huge shelf filled with all types of fiction books. Whenever he is not caring for his garden or tending to his pampered dog, Fiji, he is reading his historical fiction …show more content…

Most fiction books can demonstrate lessons and allow people to relate to the characters’ problems and situations to their own. For example, Aesop’s Fables story, The Ant and the Grasshopper, directly demonstrates that we simply cannot have fun all the time. Durring the summer a lazy grasshopper rests and lounges around while the ants work hard to gather and store food for winter. As winter came the grasshopper had nothing to eat and begged the ants for food and shelter. In most fiction stories the author adds a lesson for the readers to receive and comprehend . However, not all fiction has a lesson that can be learned. Some stories might have situations that the readers can relate to . I was adopted into a loving family and can relate to Matthias since he was adopted into the Abbey. Since reading fiction benefits as teaching life lessons it is a good use of

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