Jim And Antonia

Which, when argued can lead to the conclusion that perhaps it is stories that are heard that can be held more jealously than a novel. Jim and Antonia, and the others present at this time, could have decided to never share this story thus locking it firmly within their own minds. Meanwhile, a novel, by nature, is written down for anyone to see and is intended to be shared with, hopefully, millions of readers. A novel’s open-ending or questions may be favored among one person while despised by another, but it is still out there for the world to read whereas a speaker can decide at any moment to end the chain of the story. The novel, as such, has revolutionized the way storytelling works because it refuses to be held jealously, whereas it is more of a choice for storytellers to do so. Admittedly, there is a specific reason for people to normally tell …show more content…
Yet, a story can still be abandoned because it is deemed useless in the same way that a book might. All of these contradictory thoughts lead up to the fact that the novel and storytelling are intertwined in this conundrum. Both can be held jealously as Benjamin suggests that only a novel can. The biggest difference is that storytelling must include at least two people, while the novel can begin with only one. The fact of the matter is that even in the solitude of reading, the debate or questions that an author brings up is almost guaranteed to force people to communicate their various thoughts and feelings on the matter.
As it is done in storytelling, the novel can address readers. In My Antonia, in the introduction, the