The relevance of the story to modern day world is about how we are scared of many different things even though we shouldn't be. I find that many people are scared of things even though they know nothing about it or experience what there scared of. I think that our generation is not so brave in exploring new things as we have been in the pass. But we love to flatter people who do things that were not comfortable with. People like to say that they would do all these things but when it comes to it, they won't do it.