Do Stories Teach Us Our Morals?

Flannery Wilson
5 min readMay 18, 2018
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When we read stories or watch movies, we understand what is going on by processing the information that is given to us.

Sometimes, however, parts of that information are misleading or vague and require us to rethink our previously held beliefs about characters and about events.

Sometimes narrators turn out to be unreliable and, as viewers, we may wonder how we were are so easily…

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Flannery Wilson

Flannery has a PhD in Comparative Literature. She teaches French, Italian, and visual media. Her book on Taiwanese cinema can be found on Amazon.