Not necessarily. Some stories are simply meant for entertainment or storytelling purposes without a specific lesson or moral intended. However, many stories do aim to impart lessons or themes to the audience.
A lesson the writer wants to teach the readers
A lesson the writer wants to teach the readers
A lesson the writer wants to teach the readers
A lesson the writer wants to teach the readers
Fable
A lesson the writer wants to teach the readers
A story's central idea or lesson is either what the story is trying to teach you (a moral, for example) or what it's about.The word is Theme. Aristotle calls it the Thought.
what lesson did zeus teach
its called a 'fable'.
what lesson did zeus teach
You read the book and you think to yourself what is it trying to tell or teach me, every book has a lesson it's just that some are more obvious then others. The objective may be in the form of a lesson its trying to teach you or what the story revovles around. The objective in the boy who cried wolf is a lesson teaching you not to lie or no one will beleive you or in the story charlottes web, the pig (wilbur) is trying to survive and the story revovles around what he does to survive. In the bible there a lot of parables with objectives hidden you can search on the web ' the lost lamb' and lots of searches will have the story will the explaination in this case the objective.
A story which is written to teach a moral is called a homilectic. The moral it is meant to teach is called the homily. But not all stories are homilectic. The best ones hardly ever are.