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    However, not all simplification would bring such consquences but benefit the point of view of the narrative. Sometimes, they enhance the recieveing, concerning and understanding by the audiences. In narrative, especially for film, have many limitation about length and presentation. Therefore, although they are trying to relate the real issue and feeling in reality, they can barely do that. As a result, simplification is necessary for the creator to simpify their idea, in a form of story to tell their

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    There is power in belief, in stories that are told and built on by traditions, and that are deeply engrained into the land and its people. This belief drives individuals and lets them draw upon abilities that outsiders cannot understand. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s short stories, “Yellow Woman” and “Storyteller”, the narrators have something greater than the foreign, white characters. In these stories, the traditions and cultures of the indigenous characters are powerful and important, especially so

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    Francesco Zizola lives in Roma, Italy, he is known for his work in documentary and social photographer since the ’80 although his main focus is social journalism. Fransesco is one of the founders and co-woners of the establishment NOOR which opened during 2007. Mostly his assignments and the focus of each member at NOOR are personal projects and this assign them with great opportunities to travel around the world, his main focus is to portray forgotten crises that were not covered by the mainstream

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    Stories are unique in a way because no two people have the same one. The Things They Carried is a book that enhances different perspectives of the Vietnam War through storytelling. As Tim O’Brien explains the different stories that are told, he creates characters to capture the different moments that are experienced in war. Storytelling does not always come from the total truth, but from the experience of the storyteller. As most characters like to tell the truth while telling stories, they often

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    Douglass Vs Nabokov

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    Frederick Douglass wrote his extraordinary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, proving that he is a great writer indeed. But does his writing fit Vladimir Nabokov’s criteria for what makes a “good writer?” According to novelist Nabokov, there is a certain criteria a writer must pass to be considered good, as explained in his essay “Good Readers and Good Writers.” Conforming to Nabokov’s criteria, there are three points of view a writer writes in, a storyteller, teacher, and

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    seems to linger into their present relationship together.  The two don’t seem to get along very well at all during the first part of their journey but as they progress towards Phoenix Arizona storytelling; the thing that at first seemed to tear them apart was able to bring them together.  The element of storytelling evolves and these changes enable the characters to move from the memories and pain

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    the euphoric effects cause Elijah to feel superhuman and confident on the battlefield, becoming “the invincible hunter. . . using his osprey’s vision to spot the enemy” (212). Basil Johnston, a Chippewa educator, has described the windigo of oral storytelling as “gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones.” Elijah has also become thin and hollowed out, trading food for the sustenance of killing and morphine. Having the power to eliminate someone brings forth

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    entire peoples were passed down by word of mouth. Even once written language came to be, stories remained the primary source of recounting history and culture to future generations. Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller revolves around this idea of storytelling as a means to shape and form culture as Llosa describes an outsider who takes on the role of the main orator of a tribe in Peru. Llosa both alternates between insider and outsider narratives in The Storyteller and presents an unreliable narrator

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    Many stories can teach us about different cultures such as The Trojan Horse and The Blue Wren. The Trojan Horse teaches us about the Greek culture by telling in the story about the wars they had and the beliefs they had. The Blue Wren teaches us about the Aboriginal culture. The Blue Wren tells us that the Aboriginals made stories to explain why or how something is to be and tells us that Aboriginals made stories to have morals. In The Trojan Horse there was a war between two men and their names

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    Stories have been shared for as long as there has been a developed sense of culture among the human species. Whether they be orally or written down, they have been there and often share a few universal themes. From the epic novel Beowulf that was one of the first stories to ever be written down to a very recent novel called The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, the universal themes are there if you look far enough. In The Maze Runner a dystopian society is the basis of the thrilling science fiction

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