Oral storytelling

Narrative inquiry is the study of life experiences and the process of gathering information for the purpose of research through storytelling (Creswell, 2013). The purpose of narrative inquiry is to increase understanding of issues related to learning and teaching through storytelling and retelling of an individual’s life story. The narrative approach is based on the premise that, as human beings, we have an understanding and meaning to our lives through stories and offers ways to simultaneously…

Cloaking in white calls back the previous two times Sansa was covered by Sandor’s white cloak: after she was stripped and beaten in court and after the failed “wife-stealing” of the Blackwater. So the bed in this passage becomes the marriage bed after the cloaking ceremony. It’s not simply a matter of “knowing what happens” in the marriage bed, but a place to confess her desires as a mature and enthusiastically willing bride. Eyes open and no cold feet! At the beginning of the chapter, we…

What is storytelling? As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, storytelling is simply “the activity of telling or writing stories” (Storytelling, 2014). However, it is much more than that. Storytelling is ambiguous; it can mean many different things to many different people. Whether one knows it or not, we are all storytellers. Storytelling is especially effective in the field of healing, specifically trauma. Through storytelling, people who have suffered great trauma utilize stories as an…

Throughout history, people have used song and music to convey their messages. Older than the written word, storytelling has always held an important role in society. Stories were meant to entertain as well as to tell and immortalize historic events. They were cautionary tales, and family histories passed down orally from one generation to the next. One of the ways this was done was through song. Harpists and poets would travel the countryside, telling their tales and singing their songs to…

hear that, you try and use it for encouragement if you are the one trying to cheer someone up or get them through a rough patch in their life. This seems to be true in Thousand and One Nights that we read during the semester. Shahrazad used her storytelling to try and control how her life ended up. Going in she knew that she may be killed just like every other women, but she wanted to change that. She told stories to try and change…

The purpose of textual analysis is to describe the content, structure, and functions of the messages contained in texts. (Frey, L., Botan, C., & Kreps, G., 1999). Textual analysis of a screenplay requires observing all the elements that create meaning within the piece. Based on true events 99 Homes skilfully tells one fictional story that speaks for thousands of true ones. (Persall, 2015) It tells the story of Dennis (Andrew Garfield) an unemployed single dad that loses his house where he…

Cary Davies ' narrative questions the importance of the storyteller in the modern tale. Davies engages the reader in thinking about the narrative we are reading by presenting multiple narratives. Davies uses free indirect discourse, playing on the internal and external thoughts of her characters. The metafictional engagement between the 3rd person narrator and Arthur Pritt, who tells a story within Jubilee, questions the importance of Arthur 's role as a story teller. Metafiction is 'stories…

Fairy Tale and Folktale Storytelling Blog: A Reflection Over the years I personally have done hundreds of essays, research papers, and various other assignments for my English/Composition classes. However, this particular assignment was both straightforward and challenging for me all at the same time. What made the assignment easy for me is that I enjoy writing, especially stories. Since I was a little girl I have enjoyed putting words together to make a story that is both entertaining,…

Because non-narrative storytelling in this way was so new at this time of filmmaking, the praise along with the negative criticism is not at all surprising. In the film our sense of time is quickly disoriented with the multiple flashbacks, shifts in time, and the constant repetition…

“game is a kind of abstract storytelling that resembles the world of common experience but compresses it in order to heighten interest.” Janet Murray (1997, 142). Those decisions in a narrative standpoint can be related to the real-world issues. Due to the political issues the game Every…