A lot of people read as a hobby and that is completely easy to understand.
But at least in my country we need to read fiction books in school and analyse them.
It’s important to know that I am talking about fiction, not about history or math books. I am talking about Shakespeare and those fiction writers.
As an example, we need to explain the meaning of verses in poems and we need to understand what is the meaning behind books.
Why we need to do this? Is the necessary nowadays?
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No one else touched on this but reading Fiction is also effective for building empathy. I don’t know if the exact way it works has been studied but reading fiction can improve your empathy. I would guess it is related to taking the 1st or 3rd person perspective and putting yourself in someone else shoes for an extended period of time but don’t have evidence. I found for me this was especially effective for historical fiction to relate to problems from other cultures or the feelings people might have had. A lot of history can seem really dumb in hindsight (why didn’t they just do this?) until you really try and take on their perspective and imagine what life would have been like (through fiction).
TLDR Fictions improves empathy
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