mark received for the essay. Fiction can be a great tool to broaden one’s outlook on the world. In the essay “An Unquiet Awakening” by Mordecai Richler; shows how fictitious literature can have a humanizing effect by allowing the reader to draw parallels between the main character and his/herself. Through parallel narrative Richler shows the reader how by establishing parallels between himself, the main character of the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer