Analysis Of Improving Your Storytelling: Chapter Analysis

The chapter excerpt from Improving Your Storytelling centralizes on the idea of a useful technique to develop a story character by physically embodying and mimicking the character. When becoming your story’s character, there is much more that can be enacted than their physical attributes. Their actions and demeanor are two important contributors to their character, however, there is also the unconsciously acted upon internal sensations. These include the way in which the individual is posed, the way their body tenses, and the identified center of mass in relation to their overall body. All of which can contribute to developing varying characteristics, and can be mimicked by the narrator or teller of the story to represent different portrayals in the prose. Each category is then discussed individually. A pose can either be open or closed or a mixture of both, with both having different ways that the action can be interpreted. The tension in the body, in relation to the muscles, can both be unconscious and conscious and over time people slowly learn and forget that they are tense according to their surrounding environment. Center of mass, body center, …show more content…
Parables themselves are used to teach a lesson or values. Big ideas such as ‘salvation’ or ‘experience’ become difficult to explain because of how big their overall meaning is. A speech can become under-developed and non-memorable if the underlying idea is not interpreted by the audience correctly. The point can be brought across by telling it through a parable. We all have stories that are a direct reflection of events in our own lives that have made us who we are. These stories can be used and taken advantage of in telling a story to make the main idea become prevalent. This technique is useful, for the right occasion, when telling an important