Class In 'All Stories Are Anansi's The Three Spinners'

Proceeding this research with a thorough analysis behind the story that was chosen to write this paper. It would be taken more in depth behind the story of the meaning why it was written and what historical event were currently happening to inspire the time it was written. There are many aspects to what a story is about based on the elements that is used to create the story. To be able to develop a story, a story must consider the plot, setting, time, the characters, point of view, style/tone, theme, and symbolism. Other inspirations such a environ, culture, and even psychological view, are some of the other reason to comprehend the story as its being told.

Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism are just a few examples of the many styles of writing that exist. Each style of writing deals with a specific time period. Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”, Henry James’s “Daisy Miller”, and Mary E Wilkins Freeman’s “The Revolt of Mother” are just a few examples of the literary works that represent these time periods. These literary works are perfect examples of the specific time periods each writing style was popular among certain authors. These stories allow readers to compare the modern times that we live in currently to the period these authors were in. They also allow the reader to branch out and be different.

In the three short stories, “The Chair Carrier”, “Interpreter of Maladies”, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, different themes are portrayed through tough questions; when a character asks himself a very difficult question and the answer will tell you about the conflict and help you think about what might happen later in the story. Rhetorical questions also might come up throughout one or two of the stories which is asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on something when no real answer is expected; used to create a certain writing style or for persuasion. In, “The Chair Carrier”, “Interpreter of Maladies”, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, readers can decipher the story’s themes of change vs tradition, miscommunication and the power of words

For many decades people have relied on their story telling to communicate their truths. Without the use of words many people’s struggle would be lost throughout history. Literature develops story-telling into a permanent mode of transportation. In his novel Senselessness, Horacio Castellanos Moya develops two simultaneous stories. Specifically, in his novel there is a narrator who has been hired to edit indigenous testimonies.

Another component of the story’s allure is the role in it that the concept of narrative accrual plays. Narrative accrual refers to the collection of smaller narratives to form a longer one, such as with history, culture, and autobiographies (Bruner, 18-20). One of the most significant manifestations of

Throughout time, storytelling has evolved and changed with society. While oral storytelling is not as prevalent as it once was, the stories that were once passed down orally have now been written and passed through generations and cultures in this manner. However, the form that the story takes has not had an effect on storytelling as a whole. Storytelling has provided a way for tellers to pass along ideas on culture, ways of life, and traditions that may otherwise have been lost. Oftentimes, stories can become convoluted after being passed on via word of mouth, yet, others keep their integrity. No matter the truthfulness of the story, storytelling has consistently been harmful due to its ability to influence the listeners’ or readers’ thinking. In this paper, I will prove that stories are inherently harmful due to the ability the teller has to influence the listener through relatable or believable stories, whether they be fact or fiction, to solidify the gender hierarchy as shown in literary stories such as Lysistrata, the Tale of Genji, and Sunjata.

“We can begin to explore the lineage of women as tale-tellers in a history that stretches from Philomela and Scheherazade to the raconteurs of French veillees and salons, to English peasants, governesses, and novelists, and to the German Spinnerinnen and the Brother’s Grimm.” (53-54) In the chapter “To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale” from Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion and Paradigm, Karen E. Rowe explores the depth and history of voicelessness of women and how the combination of spinning and tale-telling was their way of speaking in a society that would not let them. She takes the reader on a tale of a complex history that starts in ancient history with the Greeks, goes to the French, the English, German and

This week we will begin our new unit where the students will be reading a variety of short stories that fall into the genre Oral Tradition. In addition to reading folk tales, fables, and myths, they will also write two stories in this genre. The students will also be introduced to figurative language, which is prevalent in Oral Tradition stories.

All stories consist of a few common structural elements found universally in myths, fairy tales, dreams, and movies. They are known collectively as The Hero’s Journey. Understanding these elements and their use in modern writing is the object of our quest. Used wisely, these ancient tools of the storytellers craft still have tremendous power to heal our people and make the world a better place (xxvii).

Stories play a very important role in our society. However, the process that the story is told differs based on its form. For example is it a poem (which has a specific form and style) or is it a prose (written/spoken language without any metrical structure)? Although poetry and prose greatly differs from each other, there are many similarities between them. Prose is defined to be in an ordinary form, but prose can share some poetic qualities such as literary devices, imagery, and theme, and many more. Tim O’Brien’s Things They Carried depicts a fragmented stories about his and other soldiers’ experiences that occurred in the Vietnam War. Similarly, the poem, “Facing It” shows a soldier who returns to the Memorial of the Vietnam War where he recalls his own trauma in the war as he looks at the stones. Both the prose, Things They Carried and the poem, “Facing it” conveys the similar theme where they are struggling to overcome the trauma of the war and face the reality. However, the style and the form that the poem and the prose is depicted differs from each other.

They heard of these stories through “educated women who had absorbed traditional stories from household servants and nursemaids in their childhoods” (pg. 918). The peasants that made up the lower class often would tell stories that would depict their daily lives but have a fictional twist that resulted in a happy ending. In the story the Three Spinners, a poor girl who will not spin is visited by the Queen and told if she spins a flax, that the girl can marry her eldest son. Three women of oddly proportions help the girl, in return for an invite to the wedding. In the end, the girl never has to spin again, and is in the royal family. Social status is the basis for this story as it shows the restrictions and the hard labor peasants had to endure. In the Three Spinners, the queen tells the girl that if she spins the flax, “you shall have my eldest son for a husband, even if you are poor…”(pg. 919). Here is an example of how peasants were treated in a sense that she had to feel a sense of gratitude that she could marry royalty even if it was not by choice and how peasants were traded off to other families for labor purposes. Later in the story when the three women come to the wedding, the prince notices their physical differences. He asks the women, “How do you come by such a broad foot?”(Pg. 919) In which the women

Published two-hundred (and) one years apart, ‘The White Snake’, written by the brothers Grimm, and ‘Just Listen’, written by Sarah Dessen, have many similarities and differences in the men and women’s roles of their stories. ‘The White Snake,’ being an older book, is more likely to have larger contrast because at the time that it was written, women were considered more to be stay at home wives. ‘Just Listen’ is less likely to have such large contrast due to the modern writing and thinking that the author channeled into the book.

Telling a story is a most exciting expression, in terms of communicating influences, culture, and values. What makes the event of storytelling special are the words. Logically speaking, words depicted with direction and effectiveness produces images that set-up the opinions in a human being’s mind. Secular language usually involves everyone figuratively; on the other hand, religious language is specific to the mind of its subject, as it relates to the social order of that time. In The Dream of the Rood, the speaker declares, “I will describe”, but

“Stories too are defined by the principle of nkali [a noun translated to “to be greater than another]: How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.”

How have notions of story telling or marginalization informed and challenged audiences? In your answer, you must refer to at least TWO set texts, at least ONE of which has been studied since the half yearly.