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Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real teach us anything useful? Well that really depends on what you think is not real and what is useful. I think that there are books out there that aren't true but still are able to teach us useful things but it really does depend on the book. There are some books that are completely non fiction with aliens and different planets and all that and as far as usefulness goes it really is all morals and less life skills. On the other hand there are books that take place on Earth but have characters and events that don't exist or won't/haven't happened yet. In those cases they might be able to teach you something useful like skills that you would need in your daily lives. So really it does depend on the actual book itself. Don't pick up a Shakespearean tragedy and expect to be able to fix someone's car engine by the end of the week.