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The ability to read provides: POWER & SURVIVAL in the world

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"Yet the primary concern in narratives is not actually chains of events but the fictional worlds in which the characters in the story live, act, think, and feel."

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- relief
- happiness
- strength
- freedom
- pride
- joy
- reassurance

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- fear
- frustration
- confusion
- distress
- sadness
- disappointment
- anger
- weakness
- shame

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"The brain responds to emotions in fiction exactly as if it were real life."

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FICTION EVOKES EMOTIONS

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"If empathy is acquired gradually and is not fully developed until late adolescence, and if fiction is to serve as a training field for the social brain, fiction should logically offer challenge, not comfort."

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"The most complicated and demanding characterization device is mental representation, representation of a character's inferiority: thoughts, feelings, perceptions, beliefs, opinions, assumptions, and intentions."