The author point out the ability of human beings to have feelings for each other through empathy which inturn create altruistic human behavior.
Explanation:
Empathy result in having compassion and understanding feelings of people who are afflicted and it's encourage others to render help. Empathy is a motivator of altruism. Altruism is a person's ego who has problems and anxieties and go out to render help to others who need it. Altruism born out of empathy is the true altruism because it is the desire to help people who are afflicted.
The real-life basis for those following characters is that they are all there because they are hoping to look for the meanings of their life and that they are finding a way to fit in.