The importance of stories has a meaningful meaning behind it. I believe that stories were made for different reasons and have different emotions. Stories can be used as inspiration, warnings, creativity, and much more. Stories are made for sharing from one person to another.
For example Europeans stole Native American land from the Native Americans and claimed it for themselves while enslaving the Natives. It’s important to know the history of this story so we know what is real. Some stories don’t have to be all about his history at all either. Using creativity you can create your own story for fun with an inspirational message.
With “Canterbury Tales” Chaucer learns lessons from the Canterbury Tales is moved by the power and meanings the tales offered to Chaucer. This too also applies to reality.
Stories are meant to be an envisioned moment, you get to create what you see, and what you project your emotions into. There’s so much versatility in stories that there’s so much learning and themes along with it too.
Anyone can learn something from a story , it may not be the same meaning for everyone but there’s endless possibilities of what you can experience from story.