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Does reading great literature make you a better person? There's a theory, vaguely associated with evolutionary psychology, 

maintaining that fiction builds empathy, and therefore morality, (31)___ inviting us into the minds, hearts and experiences of 

others. This is what one of the British children's book authors implied recently, when he claimed that "developing in young 

children a love of poems and stories" might someday (32)___ the human-rights organization Amnesty International obsolete. 

While many experts are all for (33)___ such tastes in children, they also don't think the love of stories has to be taught. Most 

children are keenly interested in stories in all their forms. Yet there has always been a need for groups like Amnesty and it

seems probable there always will be, no matter how many stories we (34)___ our youth. Isn't it just as likely that many people 

who are already empathetic and moral will be (35)___ to literature because they're curious about and interested in how others 

think and feel?