For better or worse

Listening to stories enthrals all ages, especially in childhood. Spontaneous story telling has the advantage that the tale told may be modified by the listener’s responses. Often a story’s hero or heroine goes from personal disadvantage to personal fulfilment, a time that requires the hero or heroine to overcome a powerful evil figure and to experience shame. Shame occurs with the process of growing up, in phases of education and training, in grief and some therapies.