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Fiction And Non Fiction Essay

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Fiction has often been thought to be useless, providing no benefit to people, however, this is far from the truth. It has actually been shown that fiction can effect society in many different ways using different mediums; books, tv shows, or movies are common. The ways it can effect people varies as well; it can change people’s beliefs, provide insight on real events, and even lead to new technology. For millions of years humanity made it a habit to tell stories, in the beginning it was mainly true stories about events that had recently taken place and then embellished slightly to make it more interesting. These stories could have been told strictly to relate events but they also could have been for the purpose of making oneself look better. The way the story was expressed was most commonly by people verbally telling it to others, mainly because many people in the earlier centuries were illiterate if they were just common folk; this also provides a reason why these tales would often get exaggerated. Nowadays if news needs to be shared it’s just told like it is, with facts and statistics to support their information; doing so disconnects us emotionally from the content.
The more one gets drawn into a story the stronger the effect of it’s influence; this is why fiction can be more influential than nonfiction. Nonfiction is factually based and, therefore, harder to get drawn into, since when reading it we tend to be doubting its truth. For this reason,
“...when we are absorbed

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