Here the author provides scientific information on oxytocin levels in the brain to make a point about why we as readers get attached to characters. Oxytocin which is found in nursing mothers provides that bonded feeling people find with each other, and according to the author, with our favorite characters from the stories we interact with. This causes us to be emotionally bonded to a story in a way me may not be were this not a process that occurs in our brains. How would stories be different if we couldn't emotionally connect to our characters?

The threat of danger or harm to our children is a constant theme in story telling because it makes almost everyone afraid. People desire to protect their and others children from perceived dangers, so narratives that showcase a decided threat are often circulated very quickly. As we see often politically, if you want to make a group out to be a threat you make a story where children are being harmed, like in the trans rights movement today, or even civil rights in the 1960s.

The author highlights here how impactful culturally storytelling can be. Storytelling as a means to educate and to entertain has been around as long as humans had any means of communication with each other, and each story tells a lot about where it was from and what those people believed or felt at the time. The storys we were told as children, and ones that get read to children today also reflect our modern and changing worldviews, so understadning the science behind it is vital to understanding ourselves, and what ideas or biases we may have based on the stories we are surrounded by.