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How to be a Great Storyteller Online
Storytelling is pretty much the most basic and important way of communication since ancient times. One has always conveyed a piece of information through storytelling. The concept of storytelling is not difficult to understand, it is clear; it is simple to tell a story. Now, telling a story to describe something in a better and more convenient manner is art. Storytelling is used to reach the masses and make the subject much easier to comprehend. In ancient times, all the cave dwellers used pigment to paint on walls with their hands to create stories and myths. The ancient Greeks carved their language into walls to tell how history was moving forward. The Chauvet cave in France is the oldest representation of storytelling. It was found thus far, dating to 36,000 years ago. The storytelling there is about the cave paintings that are believed to tell the story of a volcanic eruption, according to many articles published online. In today’s era, storytelling is yet another very crucial method of disseminating information. Also, it is vividly clear that the internet is a part of our lives. The internet answers so many things, the maximum topics we want to know the answers for. Now, culminating these very important methods, storytelling and the internet, it makes the writer powerful enough to reach the maximum number of people and tell them the concept or the message or the information via storytelling. It makes the writer’s work reach as many people as possible; hence, the storytelling technique makes it easier for the readers to understand and relate to the writer’s work.
Storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Contemporary American and Canadian Fiction, language: English, abstract: Oral storytelling is a tradition inherent to all cultures. By definition, its genre is determined by its original oral transmission; many of the world’s greatest literary classics such as El Cid, La Chanson de Roland, Beowulf or the Odyssey were originally orally transmitted. In most cases the author is unknown and the story has undergone many modifications in the course of the telling processes; still they are today’s primary testimonies for language, history, culture and people of the past. In this paper, a definition of oral storytelling will be provided along with an introduction in order to define the subject matter as well as the significance of putting oral storytelling into writing as Silko did in Ceremony. Leslie Marmon Silko was brought up in the Laguna Pueblo community in New Mexico, a Native American tribe where storytelling plays an important cultural role . For Silko, the process of writing her novel Ceremony was not only a way of staying sane - as she states herself - but also to identify with her Native American origins. In this novel, she points out the opposition between the Native stories about reciprocity with nature and Euro-American stories of dominion. This confrontation is a conflict of two paradigms reflecting the protagonist’s, Tayo’s, inner state of mind; he has to reconstruct stories to reestablish an agreement with both cultures – for himself. The main focus will therefore be on the forms and functions of storytelling in the novel itself. Hereby, crucial aspects revolving around the cultural differences between Native American and Euro-American culture, the clash of cultures and both sides’ impact on the individual will be in the center of discussion. The conclusion summarizes the paper’s assessment of the results attained.
From Soldier to Storyteller
Author: Kathleen Broome Williams
language: en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date: 2024-10-08
Many of the best-known and most popular children's stories of the 20th and early 21st century were written by veterans of World War I and World War II. These include works by such writers as A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. Although they had experienced war, most of the veterans did not overtly write about it. The seeming paradox of warriors who went through searing combat and then wrote books for children has not been addressed collectively before now. The essays in this book explore what motivated these veterans to write for children, what they wrote, and how their writing was influenced by the wars they lived through. It examines how their combat experience can be traced in their writing, however subtly, whether it was stories about a bear and his piglet companion, a World War I flying ace, or a flying car. Their reactions to war, as reflected in their writing, yield important lessons about the complicated legacy of the 20th century's two great conflicts and their long-lasting impact--through children--on society at large.