Neil Gainman Summary

I would like to tell you about my reaction to the Neil Gainman's article about the use of fiction. As we know the meaning of a fiction story is imagination or fantasy story, it means not a real story.

Neil Gainman told us that reading fiction is reading for pleasure that is one of the most important things everyone can do (Gainman, 2013). For him the fiction has two uses , first , “It’s a gateway drug to reading” (Gainman, 2013, p.8), and second, “to build empathy” (Gainman, 2013, p.15).

I agree for what he said about use of fiction, here are what I am thinking :

“A gateway drug to reading” means that a fiction story can create a sense of fun or pleasure in the beginning of the readers start to read it, if they found this sense