Stories are about conveying the journeys, life events, struggles, joys and conflicting emotions of complex characters. They don’t need to have similar experiences as me, or from the same culture or moral code as I am for me to understand what they go through and enjoy the experience.
It could be a story of a whole upside down moral system in another culture, and I’m still capable of understanding and empathizing or at least valuing the journeys they had and the interesting decisions they made under the impact of all that’s been happening to them.
That said, you don’t need to relate to every character to appreciate their journey. You just need to witness their experience and understand that it’s their journey with all its decisions, morality and emotions and value it for what it is.
Stories are about conveying the journeys, life events, struggles, joys and conflicting emotions of complex characters. They don’t need to have similar experiences as me, or from the same culture or moral code as I am for me to understand what they go through and enjoy the experience.
It could be a story of a whole upside down moral system in another culture, and I’m still capable of understanding and empathizing or at least valuing the journeys they had and the interesting decisions they made under the impact of all that’s been happening to them.
That said, you don’t need to relate to every character to appreciate their journey. You just need to witness their experience and understand that it’s their journey with all its decisions, morality and emotions and value it for what it is.