Fiction is as valuable as nonfiction in many ways. It can educate us about real things. In addition, it helps us foster our creativity and explore our emotions. Thus, I advocate reading fiction as well as nonfiction. In the first place, fiction can provide us with information about real things and invites a deeper understanding of them. Nonfiction serves as facts on file whereas novels provide us with facts and their implications for real people. Reading novels by Hemingway, for example, helps us understand the consequences of war in the 20th century. In the second place, fiction helps us develop our imagination and creativity. When we read stories, we try to visualize what the characters and settings look like. We even try to picture what it feels like to live a characters life. This kind of empathy is conducive to developing imagination and creativity. For example, by reading novels about people who have scaled high mountains, I gain a vicarious experience and give full play to my imagination. Interestingly, imagination and creativity developed this way has enhanced my understanding of many real life situations, for example, when I have difficulties to surmount.
小说和非小说在许多方面一样有价值。它可以教育我们真实的东西。此外,它帮助我们培养我们的创造力和探索我们的情感。因此,我提倡阅读小说和非小说。首先,小说能给我们提供的信息真实的东西,邀请一个更深的理解。非小说作为事实文件而小说为我们提供事实和对真实的人。读海明威的小说,例如,帮助我们理解20世纪战争的后果。其次,小说能帮助我们发展我们的想象力和创造力。当我们阅读故事,我们试图想象人物和设置是什么样子。我们甚至想照片是什么感觉人物的生活。这种移情有利于发展想象力和创造力。例如,通过对攀登高山的人读小说,我获得间接经验,充分发挥我的想象力。有趣的是,想象力和创造力开发这种方式增强了我对许多现实生活情况的理解,例如,当我有困难要克服。
Finally, fiction helps us understand and express our emotions. Novels are a mirror of our lives, and in particular our emotions. By reading them, we develop a sharper understanding of our real feelings and learn to explore or even vent them in new ways. pride and prejudice, Jane Austins best novel, has taught me more about the way our emotions work than the events and facts talked about in many psychology textbooks. For example, Darcy, one of the major characters in the novel, shows both pride and prejudice. The way that he maintains and manages both helps me better understand how emotions work. It is important to learn facts, but it is also important to develop imagination and explore emotions. In order to achieve this and deepen our understanding of ourselves and of the world around us, we need to read fiction as well as nonfiction.
最后,小说能帮助我们理解和表达我们的情感。小说是我们生活的一面镜子,特别是我们的情绪。通过阅读它们,我们开发一个更清晰的了解我们的真实感受和学习探索,甚至发泄他们的新方法。《傲慢与偏见》,简奥斯汀最好的小说,告诉我更多关于我们的情绪的工作方式比事件和事实讨论在许多心理学教科书。例如,达西,小说中的主要角色之一,显示了《傲慢与偏见》。他维护和管理的方式帮助我更好地理解情绪是如何工作的。学习是很重要的事实,但同样重要的是开发想象力和探索情感。为了实现这一目标,深化我们对我们自己和我们周围的世界,我们需要读小说和非小说。