Early Storyteller Research Paper

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep”. There are many stories that talk about how the Earth are created and they all vary depending on the beliefs of the writers. In these stories there are many similarities but there are also a few differences. A good example of these similarities can be found in a few creation stories such as Genesis, Creation by the Hopi, and The World on the Turtle’s Back by the Iroquois. In these three stories there are differences and similarities found when looking at how the Earth was created, where all the evil and good came about from, and how all of the animals got their names.

A good novel entertains the reader. An excellent novel entertains and enlightens the reader. Set in a Cajun community in the late 1940’s, A Lesson Before Dying is a heart-warming tale of injustice, acceptance and redemption. A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines is an excellent novel. Not only does Gaines inform the reader, he entertains will his effective storytelling. His use of symbolism, voice and stylistic devices keeps the reader enticed to the very last page.

It was a very bright and sunny May 29th, as I was sitting on the front porch drinking my coffee, I noticed that there were big crowds of people gathering towards the Tippecanoe battlefield. (History of the Battle of Tippecanoe, 2016) They were traveling down our poor roads and trails to get to the outskirts of town. I turned in my chair and noticed my 13 year old son, Kikiwaka was standing near me looking out at all the people.

What makes you different then someone else? Do you really believe that someone is different than you by the way they look? do we believe this to be true? Who’s to say we aren’t all the same? While undefined I think it is crazy how they are treated.

In the book, the Truth About Stories, Thomas King sheds light on the power of stories. King explicitly enforces that one must take caution in the way he or she tells a story, since it will shape one’s thoughts, decision-making and future (2). Through the use of literature, King weaves his way through native history, anecdote by anecdote, informing his readers about the importance of storytelling. “Stories are wondrous things,” the author writes. “And they are dangerous.” (9). To prove this, King mentions two creation stories; the differences in these stories is the way in which they are told. The first is a famous native story called, “the woman who fell from the sky”; this story is told in a complex, persuasive way (10-20). This story discusses a society emphasizing the value of cooperation as the animals work together to create a better world (21-22). The second story, a Judeo-Christian biblical story, describes a Western Capitalist society. It is told in a historical, punitive and direct fashion, underlining a society of boundaries and punishment. King highlights that storytelling is not just simply telling a story, rather it is how the stories are told. King uses these particular stories to show how different stories shape people’s perspectives, which impacts their ideas, thoughts and decision making. Therefore he addresses how sensitive storytelling may be, for once a story is told, it can never be taken back (10). This is true in all realms of life, cautioning

both saved and enslaved the people. Is today 's world the “brave new world” of Aldous Huxley 's

Thomas King portrays absorbing and idiosyncratic reasoning behind why Aboriginal stories are the forefront of cultural erudition in his text The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. Aboriginals rely on storytelling to, “teach about cultural beliefs, values, customs, rituals, history…” and to, “pass on the… teachings of our ancestors” to ensure the continuity of tradition and information (Hanna & Henry, 1995). King authenticates the importance of keeping Aboriginal heritage alive as he delicately balances detail with knowledge in his five stories that paint an illustration of how stories shape both Aboriginal and Western societies. Discussions that King engages the reader in include topics such as Aboriginal identity, capitalism, colonialism,

Since its initial distribution, The Wounded Storyteller by Arthur W. Frank, has utilized an exclusive place within the body of work on the disease. This book has reached an outsized and diverse audience or readers, including the sick, health professionals and scholars of literary theories of sickness. Both the collective portrait which was known as the “remission society” of those who experience some type of disease or disability and a compelling analysis of their stories within a larger framework of the narrative theory. This book presents sick people as wounded storytellers.

Naturally ever monster has to be born, or created, such as Frankenstein’s monster, and in that same way there is a beginning to every

The ending of The Storyteller is contrasts the rest of the story in quite a few ways. It has quite a deflated tone as it ends with tension between the aunt and the bachelor. The bachelor makes a prideful comment on his ability to entertain the kids better than the aunt. He also makes observations about the aunt's character and amuses himself in the knowledge that he’s changed the children and their new expectations for stories they may be told in the future.

In the “Allegory of a Cave”, Plato describes the scene of an individual who is chained with other people. This individual is released from their “reality” to face the truth, and when this individual faces this truth, a great pain is sensed from their former reality being shattered by this new-found knowledge. Through the understanding of this new knowledge, this individual gains reason, and decides to attempt to share this new reason and knowledge with the others. But this individual must face the consequences of their choice; whether to accept rejection and hatred from the others or live in isolation with themselves with their own new-found knowledge and reason. I do agree with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that sharing knowledge with others

“As monstrous races faded from popularity, the increased focus on unnatural or monstrous individuals added new interest in the long-standing philosophical and theological debates about whether or not monsters could be human and where monsters fit within God’s ordered universe […] philosophers and theologians in both the medieval period and the Renaissance often interpreted these monstrous individuals as carrying a specific meaning for the community into which they were born (Wright 6).”

The Roman Empire, which was centered in the city of Rome, was the most extensive western civilization of ancient times. With its major advancements and prosperity it is hard to believe that the Roman Empire suddenly collapsed and fell into a time known as the Dark Ages. After a period of struggles for the Roman Empire, the empire gradually fell.

As I placed the car into park, turned the key off and stepped into the crisp cold winter air, I begin to feel my pulse raise. With each step we took drawing us closer to the door, I felt my heart beating faster. With a quick turn of the ice cold door knob, I found myself standing in a whole new world. The food, the music, the faces, the language, everything was different than what I knew. For the first time in my life I was the minority in my small home town of Winamac, Indiana.

I believe the origin of life is explained in Ovid’s Metamorphoses;this book explained how Romans believed the world was created. After Chaos arrived the air was not breathable and the land and water were still interchangeable matter. It was only until Gaia, the earth goddess, arrived that Earth became habitable. There is no explanation as to how Chaos and Gaia were formed. Ovid also wrote about the Divine Creator who added lakes, oceans, mountains, and forests to the Earth. The creator then spread the air to the rest of the world. Chaos and Gaia continued to give birth to other beings that would contribute to life like Night, Sky, and the sea as well as Day, Death, and Fate. After the Iron Age, the gods created mortal men to farm and take care