The Ten Commandments give instructions for running a life. The instruction does not have to be direct and explicit, though. Take a teenager gossiping about the way her classmates dress. Or take West Side Story. The text never states directly Group rivalries can have terrible effects on individual lives, but most viewers would agree the musical can teach that principle.
Delight is what sets literature apart.
Literary experiences are always imbued with a playful spirit. The little booklets that prepare people to take their driver s license examination do not provide a literary experience. Some TV commercials do. Taster s Choice instant coffee, for example, ran a series of ads over the course of several months that amounted to one-minute episodes in a romantic story. An attractive woman and an attractive and slightly younger man discovered they shared a taste for Taster s Choice, and eventually their relationship blossomed into romance.