How Stories Teach Moral Values

Stories are well suited for discussing moral values because stories help readers learn where our moral beliefs and foundations came and continue to come from. Each story has a lesson to be learned or something that can be taken away from it. Stories teach us lessons about life and everything in between. Stories that are told at a young age started developing our morals and views and as people get older they pass those stories on to their children and it becomes a trend. All stories have meaning. Fairy tales have been told for pure entertainment along with teaching and providing a message in every story. They are usually known as things that will never happen. An example that was given in the book is the classic Disney story of Cinderella. Mice really can not talk or make things just, like pumpkins can’t …show more content…
Along with, how much is allowed to justify the means, and making choices between expediency and integrity. The example from the text is CSI. CSI provides people to be put in a situation and acting on it and also giving them the opportunity to think about what they would do. Providing people with the benefit of the doubt that they hopefully never have to go through things like that in the life but, also showing people that its out there and it can happen. Those are five examples of how stories discuss and teach people moral values. You can really learn something from a story after all isn’t that where we develop or back ground and learn new things. Maya Angelou told us her story in Facing Evil. Her story was about how she was rapped. Someone that was extremely close to the family and how she felt like she was the reason why he was killed. She read all the books in the library. She explains how she was saved because of the material and all the literature that she read. She believed that experiences create, and shape you but do not define you, only if you let