How can a novel influence its readers?
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Novel is
a long narrative prose which usually
describes fictional story. Thousands of novels had been
published in the world. Many kinds of novels had
been written with different style. Writers try
to convey a story which informing and
affecting readers. There are various themes in novels, such as love story, life
story, success story, religion story, detective story, etc.
Novel can
influence its readers positively. Stories written
in a novel could motivate readers to make a huge
effort to be success. For example, a novel titled “Rainbow
Troops” by Andrea Hirata describes an experience on
pursuing dreams to study might give motivation
to many people on achieving their ideas.
Moreover, novel can also give knowledge and attract people’s interest in reading.
A novel might contain useful information
such as culture, tourism, education, science,
human character, religion, etc. To illustrate this point, novel “The Land of
Five Towers” by Ahmad Fuadi might predispose
some people to choose study in religion school. In this novel, Fuadi narrate his interesting school life in a religion
school so that readers could
get the messages.
Yet, novel may bring negative effects to its readers. For
example, novel with
pornography, violence or racism substances might offer a negative impact. Readers might duplicate bad attitude from the story.
Too often reading novels may make some people reluctant to do other activities.
Sometimes, novel is like an opium. It can bring or create addiction for
some people. Readers would be interested to continuously read a
novel to the end of the book and read another one.
It is clear that novel can influence its readers, positively or negatively.
People should choose which novel they have to read so they can
obtain positive effects.
