I heard someone say the other day that they didn't like fantasy because they liked stories about relationships and meaningful character development. I was irked. It's one thing not to like fantasy. I know several people who don't but to say that fantasy isn't about these things seems to be either ignorant or pretentiousness. I think most fictional genres are. Although, science fiction can arguably be said to be more about the ideas.
In high school we had to read some dumb book for summer reading, but I remember a quote from it even though I don't remember the name of the book. It went something like "Even though its a lie it can still be true." I really liked that. Even though a story is fictional, and the characters are mice or wizards and they live on another planet or an alternate universe the relationships and character development can still feel so true that it affects us in profound ways.
In my learning class we have been talking recently about how narratives can be used in education. One thing that keeps coming up is if the characters in the book, story, movie, etc are not relatable to the learner than whatever the teacher is trying to teach will fail. So it makes me wonder if the real reason why some people don't like fantasy is that for some reason they have a hard time relating to fantastical settings or characters. Which makes you wonder why that is easy for some people and not others.
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