Treading Water Summary

After reading Burford-Mason’s “Treading Water” you can use the Character Don to help prove Annie Murphy Paul’s main thesis in “Your Brain on Faction”. In Paul’s article she sheds light on the idea that people who read fiction are usually better as individuals, more precisely “Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings” (Paul, 2012). The idea is expanded through research on how reading fiction can stimulating our brain, expanding our thoughts, enabling us understand other people thought and feelings. When reading ”Treading Water” the two characters Don and Mal are two completely different characters in personality so you can understand the different sides of someone who may read fiction compared