Storycorps Short Stories

In our lives, everyone we come across has a story to tell. Jason Silva, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Maxine Green have that vision in mind. Jason Silva voices his opinion in “The Power of a Story”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about “The Danger of a Single Story”. Maxine Greene writes about the significance in recognizing different stories. All three of them identified the importance of respecting each and every one.

There is injustice in the world everyday and all too often, many bad things happen to good people. In Saki’s short story, “The Storyteller”, the theme that the world isn’t just black and white is shown through his use of symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony. Saki’s use of symbolism is demonstrated through his use of the the color black and white. In the story, ‘black’ represents evil in the world along with death and depression. For example, the colors of the wolf help us explain this symbol of color and that he was a bad wolf. For example, Saki states that the wolf was “mud color all over, with a black tongue and pale gray eyes that gleamed with unspeakable ferocity.” The color white resembles the innocence, purity, and goodness in the story. This is Bertha's dress that she is wearing walking with the medals. For example, Saki says “her pinafore was so spotless white and clean that it could be seen for a great distance. The bachelor uses this color to help the kids' picture what he is talking about and give them a visual note. The theme helps us realize about how there is injustice in this world. For example, Bertha is a good person and she has all these medals for being so “horribly good.” When Bertha is invited the the princes park because of how good she is, she dies by a wolf because of her white dress being so white the wolf saw her first instead of the little pigs. Because of Bertha’s “white” innocence, she is killed by the evil, dark wolf, showing the reader the

Part two of the documentary which was labeled as “High and Low” struck out to me the most. This part brought up issues that we can all for the most part say we have at least saw in our daily lives. This section also brought up some of the many struggles that African-Americans have to deal with every day. For example, two women brought up the point that the label “Bourgeois” is a constant problem within black America. If a black person works hard to make a lot of money, get a good education and become successful, the black

The two stories I chose to compare were “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “ The Lesson” by Toni Barbara. The reason I chose these stories were because they both have an underlying message they convey in accordance to race and ways of life (somewhat traditional). The role of African Americans in these stories have been depicted as underprivileged and seen as less than by these authors because of the abolition of slavery. Although each author goes about telling the story of African Americans at a different stand point they converge into one topic of relation, that being the power of education of their history.

It was early in the morning: Ruby left the tent, bleary eyed, and made his way through the field. Unbound by the decaying fence, the cows had strayed to the far end of the clearing. Ruby hopped the fence and began towards them; knowing the ritual, they stayed put.

A California man offered a woman a ride to Wells Fargo and she accepted, not knowing what was about to be done to her.

Stories are surrounding us. Whether you're in school or at work or simply listening to somebody let you know about their day. We learn through stories. As humans we all share experiences through stories. We learn from ones experiences while they tell us the story of what happen to them. We learn about a 12 year old girl named Lisa Chavez. She tells us her story about the first time she has experienced racism. We also learn about a woman named Chimamanda Adiche's and she tells us about the dangers of a single story. While Chimamanda Adiche's tells us her story she explains to us why people have racist thoughts and it’s because of storytelling. Then we learn about Hampl’s piece about memoirs. He tells us what he thinks a memoir is and how true can a memoir be. Stories affect our everyday life, they affect how we see people and how we learn about things.

My story begins when my mom and I moved from Crafton, near Pittsburgh, to my grandparents’ house in Schwenksville at the beginning of first grade. In Crafton, there were not a lot children in my neighborhood; therefore, my wonderful mother and heart rending loneliness were my only friends. Fortunately, in my grandparent’s huge neighborhood, there were three amazing girls that became my best friends. However, those girls were not enough to combat my loneliness. At times these girls were mean to me, but my caring mother was there to lift my spirits. My mother was understanding and always knew what to say when I was lonely. As the story continues my life will hit an unexpected turn when I accepted a last minute invitation from a friend to attend

Stories are powerful. They teach us lessons and shape our values. Think back to Martin Luther King Jr.’ speech, a freedom-seeker that toppling the Berlin Wall, or Nelson Mandela emerging from prison to end South Africa’s era of apartheid. These stories inspired people around the world to think, to start conversations, to take action.

It was a cold and starless night, three children and their dog ran away from home. Their names were Tanuki, Susie, and William along with their dog Snake. Their were fairly young for their age but in respectful terms. They ran away from home to go camping together, when they were setting up camp Susie started talking about a legend. "They say when it's a full moon that a wolf with glowing white eyes as bright as the moon, will come to take you to your grave!" Susie spoke in a creepy voice, the others were a little frightened but they didn't show it. "Susie! Stop telling us such ridiculous carrot tales! We know of the legend already but your just trying make it real!"

As I stood there, propped up against the chair, waiting for Carrie to finish packing up her belongings, I was overwhelmed at the thought of Civitan not being the same. I stared off at the chipped, peeling, uneven paint, the stained carpet, the emptiness of the office.

On an everyday basis we tend to get sucked in on peoples “Single Stories” or these single stories are told about us, a story of a stereotype. For both Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Brent Staples that was the case. The Ted talk “The Danger of a Single Story”, and Brent Staples “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space”, warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a huge misunderstanding of who that human really is. The effect of these fiction stories are so powerful that they can change the way we think, act, feel, and overall change the ways in which we navigate in our everyday day to day lives.

Craigslist is known for housing some of the creepiest people on the internet, but since its inception, the process of weeding through the weirdos has gotten much easier. To remind you that it's still not totally safe, here are five of the creepiest Craigslist stories. Proceed with caution, as they might cause you to lose your faith in humanity completely.

To define a storyteller rolls, to share sacred traditions through many ways. One must memorize and retell orally the sacred beliefs from past generations. The accent story or beliefs or being are told through words,music and instruments. In many religions a Story teller can be viewed as one with higher power. One that can see,feel or be in touch in some ways closer to the unknown.Thru many religions the stories by the storytellers explain how and why we are existing. What and where we came from. How the world evolved and what and when took place first. As we all have heard, many many years of religion has worshiped in many different ways. Some use of animals as the supreme being and some use the worlds surrounding them as the old mighty. What

One thing that’s great about short stories is how quickly they can ruin your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then rebuilt, and nothing is quite the same again.