The show's main character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.
So, reading about fictional characters teaches us how real people's minds work.
One by Joachim Koester shows a man performing curious movements from a system of exercises that the probably fictional shaman Don Juan taught Carlos Castaneda.
The fictional scene that taught him to understand the subtlety of Austen's manipulation of the reader was the picnic at which Emma, cocksure as ever, orders gentle Miss Bates to restrict her utterance of platitudes during the meal.
They then create a sailing ships exhibition and assume the period dress and roles of fictional historical characters to teach others about their ship.
While Molly's days teaching at the fictional Walter Peyton Elementary School in Chicago have not featured prominently in the series (and the relative lack of diversity in a classroom of students who rarely speak is noticeable), references to her job and grading papers and related activities have been part of the fabric of the series and defining elements of the character.
Beth Marriot works in a kitchen at a Buddhist retreat in this fictional counterpart of sorts to "Teach Us to Sit Still," Mr. Parks's erudite 2010 memoir about turning to meditation to treat chronic pain.
For the fictional biological essentialism deployed to teach us that women are weaker, inferior, de Beauvoir's "second sex", conceals a biological fact that it is boys, not girls, who are the lemmings of the human species.
Unlike Brodie, Kay reportedly possessed a heavy moustache, but more reminiscent of her fictional counterpart, she admired Mussolini, taught by "dazzling non-sequiturs" and once held up a photo of the overweight Muriel to her class and declared: "You can see the sensitivity in that line of Muriel's arm".
The show starred Sutton Foster (who did not take part in the farewell video) as Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who ends up teaching ballet in the fictional small town of Paradise, Calif.
