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.
Fable
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
A lesson the writer wants to teach the readers
what lesson did zeus teach
its called a 'fable'.
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.
To make a short story have a lesson, you should first identify the theme or moral you want to convey. Develop relatable characters who face challenges that reflect the lesson you want to teach. Use plot events and character interactions to illustrate the consequences of actions related to the lesson. Finally, ensure the resolution of the story reinforces the lesson learned by the characters and, implicitly, the reader.
Tricksters are some types of stories that teach you a lesson just like myths teach you a lesson. Need to now more I.N.F.O. look at Google.com or in a book. tricksters are a stories that teach you a lesson