Some of the stories are funny. They make you laugh. Some stories are about real animals that you have seen like dogs and cats.
Some stories are about real people and real places.
Real things happen and a record is kept so that the story will always be remembered. It can be told over and over or read over and over. They wrote down God's laws and kept an account of who they were and where they went. The people read those stories or heard them read over and over. They learned what God had done for them and how much God loved them.