Character Growth

Many stories (I would almost dare say "most stories") revolve around character growth. The main character almost always experiences some kind of growth, whether they grow physically stronger, more emotionally resilient, wiser, more intelligent, or simply better in any number of ways. Sometimes, the character starts with clear flaws and, over the course of the story, overcomes them. Sometimes, the character starts well and is brought low by something, only to rise up higher than they started. In one way or another, many, if not most, of our stories focus on personal growth.

Of course they do. Our entire mortal existence is dedicated to the idea of personal growth.

We are all trying to grow from foolish mortals to all-wise gods and goddesses. This transition requires and unthinkable amount of growth, physically, spiritually, and in virtually every other way. We each have countless flaws to overcome and even more skills and positive traits to develop. In short, we need to grow. That may be why so many of our stories involve character growth; it's what our entire lives are about. I'm glad so many of our stories reflect that. It gives us a lot of role-models we can learn from, and the lessons we learn from our growing heroes will help us to grow as well.