'You Are A Flaw In The Pattern'

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Realistic fiction is a story that could happen but is fiction. Realistic fiction is, easy to understand, relatable, and often educational. The most important type of novel to read is realistic fiction.

Some realistic fiction stories have problems that happen in everyday life (or often ) educating the readers how to solve the situation. “Lourdes Lopez-Ropero (2012, 145), stories about bullying could be found as far back as Victorian public school stories.”-eduscapes.com from his book “You Are a Flaw in the Pattern". The quote from “You Are a Flaw in the Pattern" shows that realistic fiction books have been used for learning purposes for a very long time and can teach us valuable lessons. Reading a realistic fiction book can obviously strengthen your reading skills! …show more content…
There are also a wide range of these books for different ages so the book is at your reading level and understanding. “realistic fiction features main characters of approximately the age (or slightly older than) the book's intended audience.”-www.breitlinks.com. This quote supports my claim that realistic fiction is easy to understand and comprehend because it states that the ages of the main characters are similar to the reader thus making it easier to understand the novel because of the reading level and ability to connect to the main

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