Storytelling

I 'm the 27-year-old son of a poor immigrant. Before I left college I had lived in twelve homes all across the united states. My family has always struggled to get buy but with hard work, undying belief in the American dream and a supportive loving family I strove to better myself and go to college. Three years into Architecture the housing market collapsed and I was forced out of school to sell vacumes door to door 80 hours a week for an average of well below 100 a week. Eventually, I…

“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…

The original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” by the Brothers Grimm and “The Girl, The Wolf, The Crone,” by Kellie Wells have many similarities and differences throughout the stories. However, Kellie Wells takes a different approach to the story; she takes the story and uses symbols to let the reader know what she feels about the Catholic religion. The original story is not based on religion. It is simply telling a story about a girl who visits her grandmother, who was eaten by a wolf, but…

Fantasien. Bastian uses his gift of storytelling to create the kingdom anew and is hailed as a saviour; however, consumed by his new identity of a saviour and an unfettered creator with the ultimate…

became performers in an Aboriginal minstrel show for whites in North America” (King 68). In fact, Indians are to some extent victims of inaccurate stories; these inaccurate stories present another façade of the Indian identity. It is clear that storytelling and even the storyteller had an impact on harmonizing story content but the side effect is the…

When one is little, bedtime stories are a special tradition. Whether the story was coming from a book or the imagination, every child’s interpretation was different. The concept of storytelling has been around for ages. Before technology was so advanced, people used their voice to spread stories, sometimes creating more than one story from one core idea. The similarities and differences from the story of Noah and Gilgamesh are a perfect example of this idea. The Babylonian exile contributed to…

The Significance of Morals in Storytelling According to Merriam-Webster, a moral is a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story. Morals are very significant in storytelling, and often teach lessons. Morals are the deeper meaning behind what is being told, and often the main point the audience is supposed to take away from the story. Many stories have a clear and obvious moral behind them, while other stories have more than one moral and the…

STORYTELLING Introduction The famous Jonathan Gottschal (2017) said, “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories”. In other words people are surrounded by stories and pictures all over the day. Even when it seems that the brain has a break during the night, it still produces pictures, processed stories and changes it into dreams. Stories are told all the time and people are not even aware of that. When people…

Alexie, Sherman. "A Good Story." The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, edited by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, 9th ed., Bedford St. Martin's, 2010, pp. 557-560. In "A Good Story" written by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, talks about the stories that Sherman writes and tells. His mother tells him that his stories are to sad and that life in the reservations are not always bad. He tries to ignore her, but cant because what his mothers tells him is true. That life can not always be…

Presentation and Explanation of Concept to be Investigated One of the beginning cornerstones in this devising theatre challenge was the concept of fractured narratives, referring to the idea that a story can be told through non complete chunks or scenes which, when strung together, convey a story. Fractured narratives can be used in several ways: for example, scenes where multiple conversations are being held at once may use fractured narratives in jumping between conversations, without…