Reading novels or nonfiction???Which do you think is much better? |
Many books are being written and produced everyday. There are lots of books that is interesting and beneficial for us, but there are also some books that are very violent and harmful. However, If I am asked to choose more beneficial books between fiction and nonfiction, I believe nonfictions are much better than the fictional stories because of the following reasons.
My first reason is that we can learn much things by reading real life story books. Fictional stories or novels usually don't have good proverbs for us to reflect in our lives. However, by reading about one's life, we can try to be like them and change our self to be more responsible and faithful. For instance, I have read a book about Martin Luther King Jr about one year ago. By reading about his severe but successful life, I could look back at myself and learn invaluable lessons from him. His passion and leadership was such a great qualities for me to learn. My second reason is that fictional stories and novels contain untrue stories. All of these books are just made up by authors imagination. I believe these books can give wrong information to the readers. If you read a book called Don Quixote(돈키호테), you can see one man who really love to read fictions. However, the man believes all the stories from the fictions so that he becomes crazy. There are possibilities that this same situation could really happen in this real world. The incorrect stories from the fictions can be affected to the children the most. Since children are very pure, they will believe everything what the book says. For instance, after reading a fiction, my friend's sister really believes that unicorn is a real animal so that she can view it in the zoo. The problem is that she always cry and scream in the zoo if she don't see a unicorn. She believes very strongly that the unicorn is alive and my friend are having a hard time because of her sister's misunderstood information. In conclusion, stories of real people or events are much better than fictions because we can learn worth things from it and it will not give us wrong information. Even though fictions are fun to read since unbelievable things occur in the story, we should not love them very much since it also contains many side effects. |