"The Meaning of Stories" Summary

"The Meaning of Stories" is about knowing people through knowing who they trully are. The idea that identity is a life story put together by compiled events in ones life such as deep personal experiences, childhood memories, etc. all play a role in who someone really is. The emphasis of these stories lie in how a person's story is developed from birth through old age and how the way that the story is told will decide how others precieve what kind of person he/she is. When people recall memories, we tend to create myths for our audience, letting the event seem much more fantastic than it really was, or making us seem much more heroic. When we do this, we are not neccessarily lieing, but the story is altered by the locating of who we are through challenging or monumentous moments in our lives because we search for who we are as well, and only when we know the significance of our own lives can we trully know ourselves or anyone else. This article relates to the previous article we read about Memories, how they are altered due to new experiences and moments in our lives that cloud over unwanted or insignificant things of the past. When we recall these memories, they are never trully accurate, but what is left may have held or possibly still hold significants.