You make the great writers of serious modern works your teachers. We Homo sapiens love a story. From the beginning of time we can track ourselves. There is the tale, the poem, the effort to make human life sensible. Polarization between individuals and established societal systems of value, of classes, is one of the motifs of the serious modern novel.
Nothing is sacred to the modern novelist.
Societal style finds the responses to these questions. When one style of response collides with another style, enormous tension is created. The reason for the tension is that you are being told that there are other answers to what you have held fundamental to your existence. Sometimes a response will take the form of a book. I'm writing about my particular world.