Fiction is more complicated than a report of what happened to who at which consequences. It is also vaster than a moral or lesson presented through example or symbolism. Fiction, being an expansion or elaboration of the functions of memory, is often an exploration of ideas or concepts which aren't easily described in straight expository style, causing fiction to function much like memory in the explanation ·of complex situations, attitudes, problems, personalities, or conflicts: Pictures are drawn, the concept is recreated with symbolisms and parallels, or ironies and coincidences which remove the hazy confusion which often accompanies philosophic description. In short, fiction depicts an emotion which explains itself, rather than attempting a simple or basic intellectual explanation of a complex emotion.
