Importance of stories

Stories are told in every culture mainly to form a basis of how people think and how people live their lives. Through stories, we as humans share passions, happiness, sadness and most importantly stories connects us and creates good communication within us.

Stories helps us to understand each other and the different perspectives people have. Stories makes us learn and understand other people’s point of view. Most stories are fictions but it’s through the stories that we bring out our emotional responses in us.

In reference to the ‘Canterbury tales’, we see Chaucer explore moral lessons and also depicts poetic power and the entertaining values through the Canterbury tales. Through the main story, Chaucer provides moral lessons

Through stories, we kind of pretend to be in the storyteller’s shoes or pretend to be them without taking the actual risk ourselves. We start as kids playing pretend and doing the most like traveling through time and the “pretence” doesn’t stop even as we grow up. We tend to see the world through someone else’s eyes through stories. This makes stories very entertaining. The stories pass time and are fun.

Stories are also very educative. We use stories to learn. Most people i have interacted with say that they retain information readily if it is in a story or rather in a narrative form.