01/27/2013
As something of a holdover from my days as a
student of the arts I recall learning that a good story shows the change and
commonly the evolution of a character. The pick a story that we all know
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carole” is a prime example. During the course of this story Ebenezer
Scrooge learns how his actions impact others and so changes to be more
acceptable not only to himself but the world around him.
As we come away from this story there is a scene
of things being right with the world and in truth that is very therapeutic. It
would be hoped that the point of this story carries to the audience and impacts
them in life. Sadly, locking Wal-Mart executives in a room while every version
of this story produced in the last ten years runs on screen is less than legal.
Under the right conditions it may even make them better people.
What we can glean from this is that story can make
us feel better and improves us as people. The operative is can and the
conditions are that the stories have the right moral and the mind is properly
receptive to said moral.
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