The Storyteller

languages and cultures. His version of the tales offered more than a mere translation, but a vast explanation about the Oriental lifestyle for his European audience. He divided the tales per day according to the frame tale and how the original storyteller Shahrazad told the stories to the King Shahriyar. Burton includes many footnotes that explained the cultural aspects of the Arabs. As Edward Said exposes, Western scholars study the Eastern cultures thinking that the Eastern world needed…

stored him under the floorboards. The way he acted when the investigators came he seemed very off, shaken up, outside from the subject at hand. Many people would say the storyteller mad. But what makes him insane? The narrator of the short story claimed that he wasn’t mad, but he being true to himself? The storyteller of this story…

few pictures of me from eight to sixteen. Despite these unfortunate gaps in our scrapbooks, this early introduction to photography combined with my growing up in several multicultural communities across the world has helped me become the digital storyteller that I am today. I’ve moved five times in my life, each move to a different country. These moves often took place during crucial periods of my development, and having to adapt to different cultures, languages and education systems has made…

flawlessness in her demise. The accentuation on her reasonableness and stylishly satisfying body proposes an association amongst internal and external magnificence while likewise humorously making her seem more significant than either the anonymous storyteller or Guy de Vere, who just shows up as an incorporeal voice.…

search for the accurate details. Edward Bloom told his inflated stories in every situation. Even on the night of his son’s wedding, he told his inflated stories, even though his son did not like his stories. The storytelling became a bad habit. A storyteller should use precise accuracy and factual details instead of inflation and exaggeration while telling stories. Trust is very delicate, it can take years to have somebody…

usual he is right for bad things do happen in the play. All of the bad things add up to Romeo and Juliet’s death in the end and Friar Lawrence is left to explain what happened with the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. What makes him such a great storyteller is the fact that he knows everything that happens over the five days that this ordeal takes…

by readers who wanted to say something about the content or anything else. This website is great for both storytellers and readers. It provides a platform for writers and readers to interact and increases possibilities for people who have a dream of being a writer. I like the introduction of this website, “it is a one-of-a-kind adventure in creation and discovery.” It allows storytellers to gain exposure rapidly if they have good writing skills with the large users base. It is the product of…

Out of the Silent Planet is a Science Fiction novel written by C.S. Lewis. This genre of writing holds mostly different characteristics as Lewis’ Narnia books. Differences such as direct mentioning of religion and the overall tone the novel gives. Some of the characteristics are similar such as the narrating style. A major difference in Out of the Silent Planet compared to the Narnia novels is the direct religious references. In Narnia because it is not a religious allegory there are few direct…

The alternating heights, colors, and widths of the patrons create the illusion of distance and move the eye around the picture plane. For more than 65 years, Jacob Lawrence an impassioned observer and storyteller. Lawrence's work touched on the reality of the disparity, drawing inspiration for a subject matter directly from the struggle and life of Blacks in America. Lawrence’s work embodied the triumphs and tragedies of America's struggle for freedom and…

That’s when other storyteller, Dagoucin, replies by saying that: “When a man has everything he needs in order to be contended, it is very unreasonable of him to off and seek satisfaction elsewhere.” This is where we run into contradiction in Marguerite’s writing as she says that there is dishonesty and infidelity in a man-woman…