Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real teach us anything useful?

   Books and stories are truly the main source of entertainment, information, hobbies, and what not. Without books and stories, people would not be as educated and most likely will become dull throughout time. Books and stories always have their themes and most certainly have a point to get across which are expressed through characters, events, etc. Many people learn from these events and themes that are expressed through the author whether its a fictional, non-fictional type books.

   Modern day societies tend to give students in schools books that are ranged from silly to serious as time and grade level passes by. Such as Goosebumps in Elementary to War and History in Highschool to College. In most cases, non fictional books are 99% true in most cases. But fictional books can also be true. 

Books such as the Harry Potter series, Percy Jackson series, Life of Pi, etc can always teach a life lesson although they were truly not inspired through real events.

   For example, in Martels famous book, Life of Pi, the character Pi was stranded on the ocean with his tiger. In the end, he became dependent on this tiger because it is what kept him going through his horrendous journey. By the end, the tiger left and he felt a sudden break of heart. What the reader can absorb is to never be dependent on something because that something can easily destroy you. This type of life lesson can help in the long run especially when you step into real world situations. 

   Another great example would be in the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. Their is always a antagonist in her books such as Voldermort, he tends to give Harry a hard time especially when he spills secrets about his parents. One can learn to always acknowledge the truth and embrace it rather than denying it the first couple of times. Small lessons make big impacts in the real world and can be incoorporated in specific situations!

   Furthermore, characters and events do in fact help everyone and are considered useful. Common and outer knowledge are always useful because they can be put into real life situations. Without these lessons, life would be much more harder for everyone.