Realistic fiction is a literary genre that best explores the emotional outcomes in the lives of others.

A good story leads the reader to see two things: mirrored reflections of themselves, or a window into the hurts, pain and joys of others. Both perspectives are useful for maturing the mind of the reader.

Children are comforted when they read a story about someone who is just like them. At the same time, they gain empathy through the life of suffering in another child. 

Most readers are familiar with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. We attribute this literary masterpiece to early awakenings to the horrors of human slavery.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the first major U.S. novel with a Black main character, and the first to use regional accents. Following her first publication, Stowe’s