The purpose of every moral in a story is to teach the reader a valuable lesson.
Why is it that tales from long ago tell the moral explicitly, but with the stories written
today the readers have to infer what it is trying to tell them? Within the past hundreds of
years, the same stories from all over the world have been evolved and rewritten over
and over to make them more enjoyable and easier to understand. This is known as,
“Oral tradition… a literary phenomenon, crossing all cultural boarders” (Armistead 13).
As the stories were rewritten, the lessons were not written word for word on the pages.
By not explicitly stating the moral or lesson of the story it creates a mystery for the
reader, intriguing them and making them want to continue reading to figure out the
purpose of the story. In the medieval time period, “The origin and development of such
written stories began with the oral tradition” (Armistead 13). This is a major difference in
