The Storytelling Animal is an expository nonfiction book by Jonathan Gottschall that examines the history of stories and the human attraction to them. It was published in 2012 and therefore contains many up-to-date references and comparisons. I believe that Gottschall's main goal in writing this book is to bring all of us to the conclusion he came to in his research. Throughout his book, Gottschall actually brings us back to the main ideas he wants us to understand and accept, that we are innately story-telling animals, that we ourselves are addicted to stories, that we always have been and always will be, using arguments that construct the one on top of the other, using easily recognizable examples and supporting the arguments with research and studies. Purpose and Effect of Storytelling/The art and desire of storytelling has been in our blood since the beginning of creatures, both human and animal. Let's go to the beginning. Gottschall opens with a snippet about monkeys writing Hamlet. “Statisticians agree that if they could only capture some immortal apes, lock them in a room with a typewriter, and make them furiously tap away the keys for a long, long time, the apes would eventually come up with a perfect reproduction of Hamlet.” Gottschall uses this to draw in his reader, a bang at first, but how could that relate to why humans like stories. This is where Gottschall shows his writing skills. Many nonfiction writers will tell us right from the start what they plan to ramble on about in the next few pages, outlining how it all relates to the topic at hand. It goes without saying that this is not how Gottschall wrote The Storytelling Animal. The author organizes his ideas by topicality. Occasionally the chapters separate the main topic... halfway down the paper....... But if you skip to a few chapters later, we see a whole chapter on "Night Stories", or dreams. Gottschall develops the essential ideas for understanding dreams as stories in the few intervening chapters. “In our dreams…we commit atrocities; we suffer tragedies...", a statement from "Night Stories" that is apparently unrelated to the book as a whole, unless we reflect on the idea of ​​the previous chapter. Gottschall talks about how humans are addicted to bad endings When we look for connections between these topics, we can see that they are intertwined. Reflecting on the book as a whole, after reading and rereading Gottschall's writings, I began to see this complex structure of topics that has woven all the topics together structure work together to deepen the reader's understanding of the narrating animal and what it is about.