“Little Red Riding Hood was at her grandmother’s house, but a wolf broke in and ate them both”—a more dramatic set of facts, but again, it’s not a story. So a story must have an account of how life should be, an explanation of how it got thrown off balance, and some proposed solution as to what will put life right again. Now, the significance of stories is this. While many stories are often no more than entertainment, narratives are actually so foundational to how we think that they determine how we understand and live life itself.
