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Stories are in, under and behind almost everything. Our identities, our beliefs, our friendships, and families our societies and so on. Stories have a way of not only entertaining but training us. They can be incredibly powerful and beautiful devices that form and assist our perception and understanding of the world. However, according to 20th century American author Kurt Vonnegut, stories rarely tell the truth.
After studying stories from an anthropological standpoint, examining the relationships with various cultures, Vonnegut found that stories and myths across many cultures share consistent similar shapes that can typically be broken down into just a few main categories. These shapes can be found by graphing the course of a protagonist journey through a story, along an
