Although fiction doesn’t necessarily articulate concrete facts, it provides readers with a sense of derived knowledge. From fiction and story telling one of the biggest things a reader can take away from a piece is lessons. Most fictional pieces provide made up stories with made up characters but have real life underlying lessons to be learned. They provide readers with real life lessons through the struggles and triumphs of the characters. A reader can then take this instruction and make use of it in their everyday real life. Fiction is like a reality simulator, it allows the reader to think about what choices they would make in certain situation as well as learning what the result of their choices would be. Another aspect provided by fiction is the fostering of imagination and creative thinking. By reading about made people and places it lets the readers mind explore and imagine, improving cognitive thinking. By the reader putting themselves in the character’s shoes it allows them to be actively thinking and empathize with the character. This can help with expressing feeling especially ones of compassion towards others. Reading these types of stories enacts our brains to better understand people as well as look at the world from a different perspective. By looking at the world from a different perspective we see things we haven’t seen before or look at a situation in a different light. Additionally all reading in general helps with the improvement of theory of mind, or the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs and intentions different from ones own.