Storytelling

Memory is what keeps the past alive, holding on to every detail or experience in someone’s lifetime. Memories are created and preserved, and often shared with others through storytelling. In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the main character Offred preserves memories of her life and family prior to society’s transformation into a theocratic dystopia called Gilead. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is given the ability to hold the memories of the past prior to the development of the…

The importance of heritage, culture and tradition, and identity in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow is an acclaimed novel, published in 1983, that takes place in the 1970s. Covering Avey Johnson’s life, Marshall deals with the idea of loss of cultural identity and the importance of it. Through flashbacks and dreams the author presents the source of Avey’s trauma and her past. On this essay, we will summarize Marshall’s life in brief, as well as…

the world of magic and superstition. Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal provided the topic of creativity for the research project. In chapter 3 “Hell Is Story-Friendly” Gottschall claims that people are attracted to fiction, to violent stories with mysteries, and without these elements in them, society will not be as interested in stories (Gottschall, 47-49). Mysteries and conspiracies would not exist without storytelling. A person might go to a psychic reader and share the…

Since the beginning of literature and storytelling, themes have been placed in stories to portray an overall lesson that the reader can relate to or take away from. There can be more than one theme in a story, but there is sometimes one main theme that the author wants the reader to understand and it is sometimes hard to choose what the bigger theme is. In Beowulf, like in many other stories, there is the obvious battle between good and evil. From the start of the epic the reader is introduced…

c. In Simply Jesus, Wright explains the reasoning behind Jesus using parables as a method to paint a divine picture of what was happening right now; What life would look like with God as king through storytelling to reveal the character and redeeming qualities of God. The beauty and vision of His kingdom could be demonstrated through the telling of the parables and would also let people know that the kingdom is here. His teaching suggested that the time to repent and rejoice is not a future…

The lute is a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets has many related forms in many different Asian cultures. The most well-known are the Chinese pipa, Japanese biwa, the Vietnamese dan ty, and the Korea bipa. There is confusion and disagreements about the origin of pipa in China. This is due to the fact that the word pipa was used in ancient texts to describe a variety of plucked instrument throughout the era of dynasties well as the differing accounts given in these ancient…

Next to Yellow Birds Maus was my favorite. I like history and war history is particularly intriguing to me. This graphic novel was unique to me. The holocaust is an uncomfortable subject for most to talk about and Spiegelman wrote a comic to tell his father’s story. He kept the story serious and poked fun at only his own expense and his father never did he make light of the holocaust. To eloquently toe that line makes this novel a masterpiece. He was also able to express the lifetime effects of…

In the world of religion the indigenous religions share similar characteristics and important similarities. These similarities appear not in the specifics of the belief system but rather in its overall nature. Some features that characterize indigenous religions included in the following. Most indigenous religious tend to live in a native region. Because of characteristics of this environment indigenous religions develop explanations of the world and its origins based on the characteristics of…

By using the technique of storytelling to embed facts and by objectively addressing a relatable issue, the article does a great job of blending pathos and logos while also avoiding additional fallacies. To be more specific, the bare truth can be boring on its own, so Moss chooses to…

Take the novel Mrs. Dalloway, while the ending is more precise than say Larsen’s Passing, there is still a question of what is to come. After the death of Septimus, Clarissa begins musing about him. “She felt somehow very like him… She felt glad that he had done it… He made her feel the beauty,” and then at the very end of the book, “What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was” (Woolf 110, 115). With these quotes, Virginia Woolf leaves the…