#1 Week 3- Modern Fiction Pg.63

Summary

Fiction did not become popular until the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries after people started questioning monarchy and the church. Because people started thinking for themselves, fiction was able to focus on attention to detail so that the writer could let the reader get to know the characters on a more personal level.  The writers studied human nature, and how they react to different interactions thus making more dynamic and round characters. Novel in those days became a term used to distinguish fictional works from the normal romance books of the age. In the eighteenth century, due to the high level of educated people fiction was better received and diversified the works of the era. It was also a big era for published works since people had the education to read for themselves fictional writings became widely published and read. The genre became so popular that writers would put out monthly installments of the same story but would twist plots leaving people to guess what would happen next, thus a new major genre was created in literature.

Response

I never really realized that fiction is so powerful because it can become so personal and at times even feel real. Fiction really appeals to us because writers imbed real events and places in their writing thus allowing the reader to believe that what is being told through writing could actually be a plausible scenario in real life. I didn’t realize that before the eighteenth century people were so illiterate and that once the literacy levels grew, so did reading fiction novels. It is cool how fiction came about and has grown through the centuries.