Can someone explain the meaning of this quote: "It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have." -Atonement Ian Mcewan

It means that in life we tend to only see everything from our perspective. We are unable to look into other peoples lives and see why they are the way they are. But in stories we are allowed a looked into why people act a certain way. Books show us the trauma and the trials that make other people the way that they are.

Explanation:

 This quote, shows how we are of all equality. That unhappiness does not have one source, and that all minds are alike and equal. When told, stories need to show us just how are alike, how humans are not to be against ourselves and each other, we are alike simply by what we are.

Explanation: Hope it helps :)