Storytelling

What is storytelling? As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, storytelling is simply “the activity of telling or writing stories” (Storytelling, 2014). However, it is much more than that. Storytelling is ambiguous; it can mean many different things to many different people. Whether one knows it or not, we are all storytellers. Storytelling is especially effective in the field of healing, specifically trauma. Through storytelling, people who have suffered great trauma utilize stories as an outlet to share otherwise painful memories and help them cope with reality. As the shift in society becomes more focused in fields like math and science, storytelling is losing its efficacy. Over the past two hundred years, Western civilization has begun…

Who says this is important? Storytelling is important to practitioners working with children as it supports social and emotional development while achieving cognitive potential, making mental resilience to understand oneself. Erikson (1950) suggested that our emotional wellbeing and development are important in developing our identity and how we fit into society. it also comprehends through a story character a child can imagine themselves in situations. It also comprehends Maslow’s (1943,…

concept of storytelling in the two stories A Train is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result, and “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” shows the role that it plays in Native American culture. Storytelling appears in the first short story, A Train is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result, when a man named Samuel Builds-the-Fire bestows the gift of storytelling to his grandson, Thomas Builds-the-Fire. Thomas Builds-the-Fire is one of the two main…

Fairy Tale and Folktale Storytelling Blog: A Reflection Over the years I personally have done hundreds of essays, research papers, and various other assignments for my English/Composition classes. However, this particular assignment was both straightforward and challenging for me all at the same time. What made the assignment easy for me is that I enjoy writing, especially stories. Since I was a little girl I have enjoyed putting words together to make a story that is both entertaining,…

Exercise 4: Gesture and Gaze in Conversational Storytelling In order to make their narrative more plausible and detailed, many will use more than just a verbal account to illustrate their stories. Instead, they use gazes and gestures. In conversational storytelling, which is a collaborative event, gestures have meaningful functions that are tied to the description of the story. Simply defined, a gesture is the movement of the body that expresses a thought or feeling. In the video-recorded…

Storytelling is a key way for the world to communicate. Whether it is between two friends having a conversation, or if its between two strangers, it is a way for the world to learn about each other. Stories that involve war or something traumatizing take on a whole new role. These stories need a way for the listener to know what they are saying is true, as they are telling the listener an experience very few have. The cultural and emotional aspects of storytelling in Tim O’Brien’s The Things…

Storytelling is an artform that has been around for hundreds of generations, and that has spanned through countless cultures. These stories are passed around to tell family backgrounds, religious origins, or just as a way to enjoy one’s self. Bedtime stories, true stories, myths-the number of ways and forms that stories exist in are countless. In the age of technology, storytelling has become less common. But, no matter how much time passes in human history, the art of storytelling will not die.…

On September 27, 2016, two women from Better Said Than Done, Jessica Robinson and Mary Foxworth, hosted an Oral Storytelling Workshop during the Fall for The Book Festival. Their purpose was to help their audience “hone [their] own storytelling techniques and build… confidence [in] presenting [their] own tale in front of a crowd”. Although the workshop failed to meet the goals stated in the Fall for Books summary, it was still a successful performance because Foxworth and Robinson used the…

In the video, the essayist suggests that because of storytelling it has become easier to read and write and is one key factor that helps us survive. In fact, he says that it is how babies learn language, and attributes to how people come to understand the world around them as they become adults. Storytelling itself comes from the work of Herodotus about 2500 years ago, and was originally used to keep records more efficiently, strategically plan voyages, and to give descriptions of distant…

The human hand has multiple functions, along with different parts. The hand is able to use its opposable thumbs to “pick up a pencil and manipulate it [along with] tying shoelaces” (Gottschall 24). The hands “nails are for scratching and picking and prying (Gotschall 25).” To keep on the topic of evolution, the author then begins to talk about evolutionists Charles Darwin and Brian Boyd to support his argument of the role of storytelling. He talks about these evolutionists to add logos into his…