Moral teaching resulting from a story or experience
A moral turns out to be that teaching of a moral type that can come, either from a didactic story or from the experience itself.
The morals are without a doubt one of the most effective and used ways when teaching someone. That possibility of telling a story, usually ornate and fun and that also leaves a concrete teaching, have made morals one of the most attractive alternatives to teach someone something.
Being able to transfer teaching when experiencing a similar problem
They are the closure or the usual conclusion of any story in which the characters who take part in it adopt an attitude towards a problem and then this brings them a consequence, a fact that can later be extracted, extrapolated in a similar situation and thinking then that in that the same effects will be produced. So it is that people who appreciate a story with a moral, whether in the experience of another, in a book, in a movie, among others, it is plausible that we apply it to our experiences, if the same thing happens to us.
In children's fables, in poems, in movies, always targeting the children's audience
Generally, fables and nursery rhymes They contain this teaching that the authors of the same propose in some way as conclusions of their works.
Through a story or by an event that is narrated in it, the moral can be transmitted. It can be left as floating so that it is the reader, listener or viewer who has to determine it for himself, decipher it, let's say, or failing that, it can be enclosed within a maxim.
Cinematographic content aimed at children almost always brings some moral so that children, in addition to having fun, learn something ... for example, one of the most recurrent is usually when the character with kind characteristics, but that in return is the weakest and slowest , manages to triumph over that much less kind, putting it in more direct words the villain on duty, and who is presented as more effective, fast and ingenious; With this message what is meant is that it is preferable to always act with kindness, because in the long run you will always succeed by having good values, thoughts and attitudes that if you show the opposite: hatred, bitterness, envy, among others. .
The resource most used by authors who want to give a moral to their story is to paint very characteristic characters, since in this way the complexity of the characters is eliminated, allowing the message to arrive much more clearly than otherwise.
Formerly, the history of literature shows us, the writings, especially those that were intended for children, had a moral, because the idea in addition to entertaining and amusing was to instruct and inform children about some issues or behaviors to follow . If we leaf through a book that dates back several decades, we will surely find towards the end with the following message: the moral of this story is ...
Morals undoubtedly occupy a preferential place in literature or products intended for children, due to the mission they hold, which is the teaching of values, therefore, it is a very useful resource to apply in the teaching of the little ones who need to do so. in a forceful way but also with some fun and agility, which is what the morals mostly propose to us.
Now, from the own experiences of each one, many lessons can also be drawn that later in life can help us not to make the same mistakes or make choices that complicate our goals. You learn from everything and that is the moral, for that very reason is that when something does not go well for someone close to us, we must absorb that experience so that in the future it helps us not to repeat the same stories.
In recent years, the inclusion of morals in stories has become very recurrent, but with the aim of marking some irony more than to instruct on some question.
