Hearing Rod Sterling’s comments were extremely helpful. After watching my first episode of the Twilight Zone with my Dad a few years ago, I always wondered where the ideas for The Twilight Zone spawned. Thus, when the students asked the question, “Where do ideas come from?” I was delighted to hear Sterling’s answer. His answer was quite profound. Sterling simply answered that ideas come from “one’s experiences.” I thoroughly enjoyed how he showed that story is personal and comes from the experiences of one’s life. Such an idea, thus, further proves that story is an integral part of mankind. Furthermore, Sterling’s remarks regarding the formation of ideas provided me with a greater understanding of the definition of story. Yes, I believe,
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Although I have read this parable on numerous occasions and have listened to countless sermons on it, reading it this time was different. Reading the parable through, I did not read for application. Although application is very important, dissecting it to understand its structure in terms of story greatly depended my understanding of story. Furthermore, it revealed to me the truth that Jesus sought to convey. From the beginning of the parable, the exposition revealed itself very clearly. “There was a man who had two sons” (Lk. 15: 32, New International Version). Reading the next segment of the parable, initially, I believed that the inciting incident lay in verse 12; however, after listening to other’s views in class, I changed my perspective and ultimately decided that the inciting incident lay in verse 13, in which the younger son “set off for a distant country (Lk 15:13, …show more content…
After the younger son spends all his inheritance and flounders in the mud with the pigs, he returns to his father’s house. Receiving grace and mercy from the, the younger son is welcomed and a feast is thrown for him. Reading over this section, I believe, the father receiving his son with loving arms is the climax; however, interestingly enough, the denouement does not tie up the story. Rather, I feel as though it unties it with the revealing of the older brother. The parable is left on a cliffhanger, and the reader does find out what happens to the older brother? Does his attitude change? Does he rejoice that his younger brother has come home? This way of ending a story, I believe, challenges the audience to think. It puts the audience in place of the older brother asking them the question, “Would you also
Although I have read this parable on numerous occasions and have listened to countless sermons on it, reading it this time was different. Reading the parable through, I did not read for application. Although application is very important, dissecting it to understand its structure in terms of story greatly depended my understanding of story. Furthermore, it revealed to me the truth that Jesus sought to convey. From the beginning of the parable, the exposition revealed itself very clearly. “There was a man who had two sons” (Lk. 15: 32, New International Version). Reading the next segment of the parable, initially, I believed that the inciting incident lay in verse 12; however, after listening to other’s views in class, I changed my perspective and ultimately decided that the inciting incident lay in verse 13, in which the younger son “set off for a distant country (Lk 15:13, …show more content…
After the younger son spends all his inheritance and flounders in the mud with the pigs, he returns to his father’s house. Receiving grace and mercy from the, the younger son is welcomed and a feast is thrown for him. Reading over this section, I believe, the father receiving his son with loving arms is the climax; however, interestingly enough, the denouement does not tie up the story. Rather, I feel as though it unties it with the revealing of the older brother. The parable is left on a cliffhanger, and the reader does find out what happens to the older brother? Does his attitude change? Does he rejoice that his younger brother has come home? This way of ending a story, I believe, challenges the audience to think. It puts the audience in place of the older brother asking them the question, “Would you also