Comparison 4 Classic Tales: Lesson Four Classic Tales

Think about how you pitch your voice and how fast you talk. Lower and slower will make you easier to hear and understand.

In The Odyssey, the act of storytelling plays a significant role in revealing the story of Odysseus. Each storyteller reveals a part of the past of Odysseus and his heroic deeds. Each of their stories gives insight into what a hero should be, according to the standards of the Greek society, and they each reflect a different aspect of a hero. When pieced together, each story becomes part of a whole, however, each has a different function within the epic. Some may not contribute to the hero directly, but teach a moral or lesson to the audience listening to the story. The audience directed towards is the Greek society and the morals are taught by storytelling. By using storytelling, a hero is often

As the renowned hero approached the flock, he made a noise with a great rattle. The birds took flight, and Hercules, whose prowess as a marksman evidently equaled his strength, was able to slay them as they flew.

As men, both Jesus and Hercules performed miraculous or super-human feats of strength, will-power and self-discipline. Jesus was burdened with having to prove himself as the messiah and messenger of god. He traveled throughout Judea and performing miracles and casting out demons. Hercules also traveled the earth as a man helping mankind and performing feats, such as slaughtering monsters and demonstrating humility in mundane tasks such as cleaning stalls.

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folklore fantasy characters such as fairies and witches. One of The Canterbury Tales is similar to a fairy tale. "The Wife of Bath's Tale" contains many characteristics of fairy tales, and she strongly suggests that when a husband gives control to the wife it leads to a happy marriage.

B. Claim about Reading 1 (state what is the claim that you will be making about your first reading.)

1.2From my own practice I can judge if an individual is struggling to hear or understand what I am saying, if so then I will see how I can make things easier by talking slower, clearer make eye contact make sure they can see my lips move maybe sit closer but not too close to invade their own space.

This research mainly focuses on answering the question that "either Aesop's fables are only for children or not"? Is it only for young school going children or for adults too? The main problem creating question is Why Aesop is considered as a childhood story teller only? Does not it have any effect on adults or the writer has targeted children and young people while writing the stories? All these questions will be answered in this research paper.

Face the person you are speaking to. Stay in their field of vision. Speak a little louder than usual. Do not shout, as this distorts the voice and lip patterns. Speak a little more slowly than usual but not so slowly as to destroy the speech rhythm. If something is not understood, rephrase rather than repeat. Avoid distracting clothes or dangly earrings, or a beard if you are male, as this may cover the lips.

9. You must be an active listener to help you understand the needs of a person by restating or paraphrasing their words back to them and confirming your understanding.

Hercules ran into the kingdom and ran up the stairs to get to the secret room and grabbed the medicine he needed put in his bag and ran out of the room, ran back down the stairs and out of the kingdom to the

3. The character in this narrative really comes alive in different parts of the story and the characters could be in our class room at the very moment.

1. I think that this story has a great story line. When the story says, " They went onward until they had reached the

Fairy tales are something that everyone has read or seen, they all seem to have important lessons at the end of each one to teach young children some of the lessons they need for life. These fairy tales when we were younger all seemed innocent and something we all hoped that would happen to us. Little did we know as we got older that the fairy tales we all knew and loved when we were younger, weren't as innocent as they seemed.

As a young child grows older, parents tend to give the child stories with more meaning. Often parents fill their child’s desire for a story with a moral story. Again this phenomenon tends to cross cultural lines. Every culture seems to have a set of morals in which they abide. Furthermore they tend to have stories that demonstrate the moral in action. Young children are told such stories orally. Whether or not the story was written in a book has little effect on the power of it. And whether or not the story is written down in a book before that child grows up to tell it to his/her child is irrelevant. The story, told over and over to generation after generation, has become a part of literature.