Mee Street Chronicles- Value of the stories

Whether its comics, fairy tales, non-fiction or fiction, all stories are written and told for many different purposes in life and are passed down to teach new generations to generations. People tend to think that stories are just ways to expand children's imagination and its true, but some of us don't realize that stories are for everyone regardless of our age.

In some way or the other, stories are tied to history allowing us to better understand why things are the way they are today. Stories always have some kind of moral or lesson to teach the readers about and help them make better sense of themselves and the world around them. Stories may also allow the reader to learn a thing or two more about themselves that they didn't know before. Sometimes, authors write a story about their life and puttingthem out is used to reach out to readers especially those who may be going through the same thing. Stories may also provide readers useful information they can use as a guide and support through any struggles they are going through in life.

In reading Mee Street Chronicles, what I found most valuable about the stories was the fact that the author was brave enough to put her life story, specifically about her sexuality out to the world. Especially in the story, "Fever", which talks about her love life and in it she reveals her inner most thoughts about a female friend, Stacey, whom she falls in love with. She describes Stacey's physical features that fascinates her the most and expresses her love for Stacey in such a way that makes you understand the pain she feels throughout her secret love life. She had a fear of being different, a fear of being hated, and fear of being an outcast to society and this is what caused her to not come out earlier in her life because she knew how nasty people reacted to homosexuals. Because authors don't usually come out and write about their sexual orientation and personal love life the way she did in her book, it reaches out to people who are going through the same or similiar struggle she went through and to remind them that they are not alone in this world.