Can fiction give us a better understanding of our lives? How?

Well yes and no, I mean fiction is your imagination and a lot of things we imagine aren't real, thou there are movies that make it seem really, like Journey to the center of the earth, but the movie is fiction, well I think, I kind of hope. I mean we are taught to believe things and to do things and most fiction we are told are not real, but what if they are. I mean what if there is magical, and happy endings like. I guess our minds wants fiction to be real, because most of it has happy endings or has magical, things that aren't boring.