Story Of Edward Sawtelle Analysis

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

just to relax and for the enjoyment. When he reads historical fiction, he can picture himself in the day and time , so then he escapes the reality of the presence situation. Therefore, by reading fiction it can help relieve stress.
In addition to relieving stress, fiction can also benefit as teaching life lessons.

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

time.
Finally, fiction can be a good gateway for simulating imagination. Well written fiction books can sometimes inspire the readers to write a book of their own and in the process increase their writing skills. After my friend and I had finished reading, The Mysterious Benedict Society (book 1), we were inspired to put our active imaginations to good use and write a fiction book of our own together. We had already been inspired, but with Trenton Lee Stewart’s wonderful ways of capturing the readers’ attention and interesting plot twists, it pushed us even closer to start the writing process. Both Eva’s and my writing skills were and still are increasing throughout our writing process. In writing there are two things that is done, sharing your experiences with others and increasing your writing skills by structuring each sentence clearly so the it is understandable . Overall, reading fiction is a great way to pass the time because one can be inspired and creative.