Storytelling, the ancient art of teaching, aided in the enlightenment of communities when Google and Youtube did not exist. People learned through what they heard, which made oral storytelling the best method of assimilation for them. They learned of the great wars fought by their ancestors, the bloodshed and carnage. They sat enchanted by tales of forbidden love, heartbreaking and raw. Little by little they listened and little by little they absorbed so much knowledge of the world they lived in, so many lessons, so much wisdom inherited from history. Storytelling is an art. It is the complexity of the past and the beauty of the moment woven together to create an engaging hidden lesson. It seems they learned so much back then with only their
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The story focuses on the communities actions against him. The people taunt him, tease him, they even burn him, trying to get a sense of his character through his reactions. They assume him to be an angel at first, then treat him as a foreign creature made for them to exploit. The author reveals little about the creature. Although he never rejects nor accepts the title, he seems to feel indifferent towards the people, absent in this world. It is almost as if he knows who he is and what people believe him to be did not seem to concern him in the slightest. Perhaps the author’s intent is to make us look inward and see who we render, the angel, immune to the assumptions and judgment from others or are we so distressed by the way people think of us that we conform. While people may label us, only we know who we are, we define who we …show more content…
In Karen Russell’s, St.Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, we observe the stride and struggles of Claudette and her sisters. They are withdrawn from their families and cultures into the proper and pristine world that is St.Lucys. We witness what standards and expectations do best, they mutate. They are imposed on these girls so that they have to transfigure everything about themselves just to be seen as ‘civilized’. After all in this story, primitive is equal to bad, natural is equal to bad. No matter how many times they drill their ‘rules’ into the girls it will never latch because of the resilience of their natural selves. Their instinct to never give up is also the thing that hurts them. It makes it difficult for them to adapt when everything in them contradicts it. It shows us how we can never change who we were born as. We can improve as human beings and do the best we can do, but we will always be imperfectly
The story focuses on the communities actions against him. The people taunt him, tease him, they even burn him, trying to get a sense of his character through his reactions. They assume him to be an angel at first, then treat him as a foreign creature made for them to exploit. The author reveals little about the creature. Although he never rejects nor accepts the title, he seems to feel indifferent towards the people, absent in this world. It is almost as if he knows who he is and what people believe him to be did not seem to concern him in the slightest. Perhaps the author’s intent is to make us look inward and see who we render, the angel, immune to the assumptions and judgment from others or are we so distressed by the way people think of us that we conform. While people may label us, only we know who we are, we define who we …show more content…
In Karen Russell’s, St.Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, we observe the stride and struggles of Claudette and her sisters. They are withdrawn from their families and cultures into the proper and pristine world that is St.Lucys. We witness what standards and expectations do best, they mutate. They are imposed on these girls so that they have to transfigure everything about themselves just to be seen as ‘civilized’. After all in this story, primitive is equal to bad, natural is equal to bad. No matter how many times they drill their ‘rules’ into the girls it will never latch because of the resilience of their natural selves. Their instinct to never give up is also the thing that hurts them. It makes it difficult for them to adapt when everything in them contradicts it. It shows us how we can never change who we were born as. We can improve as human beings and do the best we can do, but we will always be imperfectly