Why We Tell Stories
Stories have been with us since time began and remain to be a core tradition to not only tell them but create them. They possess a great deal of intimacy which are often captivating to the audience, entertain and educate them by use of well-served themes. In any society, there occurs a dynamic tradition of passing information and narrating life experiences in a creatively tied recital that accounts for the ordeals that took place in the past. Major life changes such as loss, supernatural occurrences, natural calamities and personal changes are often recorded intuitively as narratives.
In “The brewery of eggshells,” we are taken through a myriad of life-changing ordeals characterized with dark beliefs. A mother lost her son …show more content…
Consequently, the mother fighting the fairy when getting the child back gives an explanation of why some infant are able to survive fetal infant syndrome. Having suffered two tragic deaths of close people in my life, I can personally relate to this concept in the occurrence of death. I lost my closest friend from high school as a result of a car accident and the loss was unbearable given the fact that I had lost my grandmother too. The feeling of confusions did not get any better even with my mother assuring me that both ordeals were God's will and they both went to heaven and are now watching over us. A lot of research on childhood development reveal that children ought not to relate to death and loss in a direct manner as adults as this may put them at risk with respect to development. The use of stories is recommended rather than straightly breaking the news of death (Herbert, …show more content…
The human race is a dynamic one that always adjusts to new environments. Whether an individual change from bad to good, the society has to take notice and react accordingly. The dynamic nature of human development and behavioural change is a yardstick used by society to measure the amount of intelligence especially when under pressure and when influenced by emotions. The imagery of alcoholism and indulgence is used in contrast in two stories; "Master and Man” and “Teig O’Kane and the Corpse.” Narratives of a man-made slave to drinking due to his quest to get free drinks in bars while Teig O’Kane tells of how he is forced to carry a dead body. Billy in the story “master and man” is a young energetic young man who is employed by a master who buys alcohol for him. Billy Mac Daniel symbolizes the appetite for alcohol that is beyond control and which acts as a deterrent to personal growth and wasteful life. The lad ends up losing his girlfriend to an old man whom was his master and never considered to be a good person. To protect her honour, the lad is forced to awake from his drinking
Stories have been with us since time began and remain to be a core tradition to not only tell them but create them. They possess a great deal of intimacy which are often captivating to the audience, entertain and educate them by use of well-served themes. In any society, there occurs a dynamic tradition of passing information and narrating life experiences in a creatively tied recital that accounts for the ordeals that took place in the past. Major life changes such as loss, supernatural occurrences, natural calamities and personal changes are often recorded intuitively as narratives.
In “The brewery of eggshells,” we are taken through a myriad of life-changing ordeals characterized with dark beliefs. A mother lost her son …show more content…
Consequently, the mother fighting the fairy when getting the child back gives an explanation of why some infant are able to survive fetal infant syndrome. Having suffered two tragic deaths of close people in my life, I can personally relate to this concept in the occurrence of death. I lost my closest friend from high school as a result of a car accident and the loss was unbearable given the fact that I had lost my grandmother too. The feeling of confusions did not get any better even with my mother assuring me that both ordeals were God's will and they both went to heaven and are now watching over us. A lot of research on childhood development reveal that children ought not to relate to death and loss in a direct manner as adults as this may put them at risk with respect to development. The use of stories is recommended rather than straightly breaking the news of death (Herbert, …show more content…
The human race is a dynamic one that always adjusts to new environments. Whether an individual change from bad to good, the society has to take notice and react accordingly. The dynamic nature of human development and behavioural change is a yardstick used by society to measure the amount of intelligence especially when under pressure and when influenced by emotions. The imagery of alcoholism and indulgence is used in contrast in two stories; "Master and Man” and “Teig O’Kane and the Corpse.” Narratives of a man-made slave to drinking due to his quest to get free drinks in bars while Teig O’Kane tells of how he is forced to carry a dead body. Billy in the story “master and man” is a young energetic young man who is employed by a master who buys alcohol for him. Billy Mac Daniel symbolizes the appetite for alcohol that is beyond control and which acts as a deterrent to personal growth and wasteful life. The lad ends up losing his girlfriend to an old man whom was his master and never considered to be a good person. To protect her honour, the lad is forced to awake from his drinking