Stories. Cinderella and the glass slipper, Romeo and Juliet, Little red riding hood, the three little pigs and of course there are religious and mythological stories too and etc.. All these stories are apart of our lives and in some way affected or made us think differently about certain topics or simply made us smile. In my opinion stories can be powerful and can help us as individuals think like others, while teaching us lessons at times as while. For example in the story of Little Red Riding hood they teach that we shouldn't trust strangers or talk to them or they can become wolf dinner or be in worse situation. In the assay “The Most Human Art” by Scott Russel Sanders he says “stories is to show us the consequences of our actions .To act responsibly, we must be able to foresee where our actions might lead; and stories train our sight.” In a lot of stories this is true, like in Romeo and Juliet i learned that people should think before they act or think about others around you, like Romeo and Juliet's parents should have done and we can see how they suffered with the consequences. Which brings me to my other example stories can help you walk in other people’s shoes or have an idea of how they feel depending on how they express themselves. Again in Sander’s assay he says “children may sense how it is to be old, and the elderly may recall how it is to be young; men may try on the experiences of women, and women those of men.” As children I think we all wanted our parents to think ‘we were grown up’ and now as teens sometimes we wish we were back to that innocent age, and in some books we can escape from it and go back to think and feel like one in books. Overall personally i love all types stories because of how they teach us little or huge lessons and help us in life and be/see how other people are. Who doesn't want to be or feel like a different person for a while? Or know what people think or be a detective trying to solve the mystery in a book?