Yet, a story can still be abandoned because it is deemed useless in the same way that a book might. All of these contradictory thoughts lead up to the fact that the novel and storytelling are intertwined in this conundrum. Both can be held jealously as Benjamin suggests that only a novel can. The biggest difference is that storytelling must include at least two people, while the novel can begin with only one. The fact of the matter is that even in the solitude of reading, the debate or questions that an author brings up is almost guaranteed to force people to communicate their various thoughts and feelings on the matter.
As it is done in storytelling, the novel can address readers. In My Antonia, in the introduction, the