Living Duplicate

Reading this Barbara Kingsolver quote made me smile as I recalled so many books over the years that did exactly that for me. 

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.

I will admit that there have been movies and shows that created the same experience for me. I had to know how things end for the characters some of whom I was rooting for, yet other who I found deeply unsympathetic and still wanted to know how they fared. You want to know how it is for folks you can't understand. Maybe the way things turn out will help you see their view of the world which till them was obscured from view. 

It almost very mattered that the characters were all made up and the things that happened to the were as well. They way the story is told makes all the difference.