Literature allows readers to access intimate emotional aspects of a person’s character that would not be obvious otherwise. It benefits the psychological development and understanding of the reader. For example, it allows a person to access emotional states from which the person has distanced himself or herself. An entry written by D. Mitchell featured in ‘‘The English Journal’’ explains how the author utilized young adult literature in order to re-experience the emotional psychology she experienced as a child which she describes as a state of “wonder”.
Literature gives the reader insights into what areas of its characters? How does literary fiction aid the person who reads it? What writer's entry in "The English Journal" was concerned with young adult fiction? Why did this author embrace young adult literature as a grownup? How did the writer refer to this psychological state experienced as a youth?