Oral storytelling

Aesop’s Fables Introduction Fables are told all through the world. The characters of fables are usually animals that attract children to learn lesson from the stories. When I lived in China, I read many kinds of fables, including ancient Chinese fables, Arabic fables, and Greek fables. I have been interested in Aesop’s Fables from Greece since I was a child. The fables in Aesop’s collection usually have simple context, but they reveal deep meanings. My passion of reading fables was inspired by…

The Listing section, I had to listen to her interview before I was able to engage with the actual apartment listing. Although these limitations are small, I believe that this interactive short is something that has challenged how other people see storytelling…

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

Aural As previously mentioned, Corner states that the aural category of documentary aesthetics is strongly linked to images and because of this could be considered a secondary aesthetic. While I agree that documentary television was considered less aesthetically inclined during the early 2000s, I’d argue that recent television documentaries, like O.J.: Made in America, have reversed what Corner is suggesting. Edelman often allows the aural contents of the narrative to take the lead in parts of…

Although many authors, like Mary Hamel, believe that Alisoun, in the Wife of Bath, did not murder her fourth husband, I disagree. I believe that Alisoun commits the crime and narrates a false tale to cover up. I will be dividing this essay into two sections, the first consisting suspicious evidence to charge Alisoun with murder, and the second exploring her psychological counter measures that give her story credibility. First, I disagree with Hamel’s claim because Alisoun’s tale has too much…

Narratives tell a story whether it be yours or someone else’s. Narratives have every part of the story from the very beginning to the ending. You are able to provide a lot of detail in your essay and/or story so that it jumps out to your audience. You will always know who the person telling the story is as well. Lastly, a narrative will have a meaning to it. They are written so that a point is made. Writing a narrative essay is actually a very interesting thing to do. Once in middle school, I…

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,…

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…

This is the power of narrative, it evokes feeling, leaving responders sometimes in their comfort zones, and sometimes out of their comfort zones as well, in order to demonstrate the composers ideas and claims. It is characterised in its ability to inspire, entertain, persuade, and inform. Every culture has defining stories, stories about who we are, where we came from, how we got here and what we believe. These stories about group identity and cultural transmission encapsulate values, goals,…

The story of Kiowa’s death has been repeated three times. Each of the stories is from a different perspective. Each story goes in depth of what the person was thinking when they saw Kiowa’s dead body. For some it was shame and for others it was a realization of the cruelty of war. Two particular chapters explain why O’Brien felt the way he did and why he wrote the book. Both “Ambush” and “The Man I Killed” are the same story described in different ways. In the chapter “Ambush” Kathleen,…