Week One

This week I read about commercial fiction and literary fiction. I learned that commercial fiction is mainly used to make money and to help people relieve some of their stress. Commercial fiction helps people to forget about their problems for a while. Commercial fiction is written so that the reader can enjoy it. Literary fiction is used so that the writer makes the reader more aware of the world around them. Literary fiction is written so that the reader enjoys it and also so that the reader takes away an understanding of what it talks about in the book. I personally like to read books that lean more to the commercial side but sometimes I read books that lean more to the literary side. This summer I had to read two books for my English class and I read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and I also read American Gods. I think that both of these books lean more to the literary side but I still enjoyed reading them. This week we were to read The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. I think that this short story is more of a literary fiction than a commercial fiction.