I think we’re using definitions differently here: I was using “moral” to mean “lesson for the reader based on what the main character wishes she had done”.
Also, parents in this instance react to events based on their stated moral system, not on their actual moral system.
However, that is the sort of assumption I already make about my parents’ statements about morality whenever those statements are suspiciously specific and applicable to a current argument that they would like to win.
I think we’re using definitions differently here: I was using “moral” to mean “lesson for the reader based on what the main character wishes she had done”.
Also, parents in this instance react to events based on their stated moral system, not on their actual moral system.
However, that is the sort of assumption I already make about my parents’ statements about morality whenever those statements are suspiciously specific and applicable to a current argument that they would like to win.
So was I :-)