I think sometimes people mistakenly believe that a story has a “message,” when all it really has is a story. When people do things or act in certain ways in a story, it’s often the case that the writer intends no message, whatsoever, other than, “and then this happened.”
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I’d say that every story has a message of some sort, but we each have our own perspective we use to interpret the message(s).
Hmmm… I am skeptical! “Every story has a message of some sort” seems similar in accuracy to “no story has a message of some sort.” I’ve written several stories, myself, which have no message whatsoever. Some stories were created only to entertain and nothing more.
Maybe we can agree that whether or not a story has a message, we each have our own perspective we use to describe how the story made us feel. (Hold on, I’m thinking this through…) And how we feel about a story is the message we get from it?
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