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    stories to be told. From that moment forth I knew fiction writing would become a part of my life. It’s something about scaring people that make horror writing fun, and I want to go into the Creative Writing program because I am a storyteller, and once you give a storyteller pen and paper it creates magic. However, I want to strengthen the genre of horror writing, which is my specialty. Since genre writing isn’t a big trend for most MFA programs, and I want to change that. The amount of…

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    these collectors in order to get accurate stories? This question is similar to the one asked about Joe Hayes, the Anglo who collects Mexican fairy tales. The most obvious English-speaking influence is that the stories were retold in English by storytellers from America and the United Kingdom. The South African Folk Tales by James A. Honey were stories such as The Dance for Water or Rabbit’s Triumph which was about…

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    Who were the Grimm brothers and how did they affect fairy tale history? The brothers Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were German folklorists and linguists, most famous for collecting fairy tales and other folklore. Born on January 4 in 1785 and on February 24 in 1786, they were the two oldest children of Philipp Grimm, a lawyer, and Dorothea Grimm. They have had a huge influence on fairy tale history. The brothers studied legal studies like their father, but were inspired by…

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    Because the lack of quality of the storyteller, it is difficult to know for certain if the beating is a powerful impact, the result of his own creative energy, or a genuine sound. Be that as it may, a presumable intelligent clarification is that when the agonist is under anxiety, he hears his…

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    When one hears a story, they put their trust in the storyteller. They want to be undeceived; they want the story to be accurate as possible. As soon as a storyteller inserts any semblance of self-doubt, or doubt of their tale, into their tale, they tend to lose their credibility. In turn, the story tends to lose its meaning. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the storyteller, Offred, explicitly expresses her self-doubt towards the beginning of the novel. However, this does not make her…

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    treatment towards her is faulty and that she needs to escape her jail like life. Gilman additionally demonstrates how over the top the Narrator has gotten to be with the backdrop and why she is so fixated. The symbolism is obviously seen when the storyteller portrays the backdrop, "around evening time in any sort of light, in dusk, candlelight, lamplight, and most exceedingly awful of all by moonlight, it gets to be bars! The outside example I mean, and the lady behind it is as plain as can be"…

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    of his verbal misuse, she shouts about how hard she's been functioning and gets an iron skillet from the stove as though to strike him. He is shocked his wife's activities, particularly since she typically just restrained her indignation. As the storyteller states in one of the essential quotes from "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston, "It cowed him and he didn't strike her as he as a rule did." From this point, it is clear that he is likewise physically oppressive toward her and this makes her…

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    Shingo Takatera Screenwriting and My Feature Goal I am Shingo Takatera, who majors in CTVA Screenwriting Option. The course of screenwriting option is so helpful to learn how to be a better storyteller for the motivational environment and the interactive environment. The course of screenwriting option requires all the student to take other classes such as editing, directing, and so on. I find this program is helpful for me to realize that storytelling is not only writing but also how to convey…

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    The storyteller manipulates words such as I, myself, and me to demonstrate his story as he experienced it. “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe, 2). The speaker is trying to prove to himself, he isn’t…

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    In the novel he turned out to be more mindful of what he was experiencing in light of the fact that before he used to surmise that nothing would ever interfere with him and his objectives in life. The storyteller clarified, "They remained for a few minutes in outright haziness and Slaney recalled that he should utilize his instinct and he felt certain he was going to get a blade through the ribs and he ventured sideways… " (Moore 123). This clarifies how…

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