5. What are the narrator ’s purposes for telling these stories? How do their reflections add to the theme of the stories? Use specific quotations to support your ideas.
I remember in primary school, I was taught that Australia belonged to many different Aboriginal tribes but then in 1788, Arthur Philip sailed into the Sydney harbour and established colonial settlement. For me and many Australians, that was when Australian history truly began but are we neglecting the history that has existed before the early settlers arrived? Are we disregarding the fact that the Aborigines were here first and that Australia belongs to them?
Other times he told a hundred years in one long narrative … But every week we spoke, because it was imperative that we know.” (Dimaline pg 25) It is revealed that Story is not just important but also fairly common. Miig’s stories take place every week yet these stories are only detailed maybe three or four times in the whole book, both accounts being one story broken into two parts, each being told at a different time.
Storytelling in history plays a crucial role in stopping repetition and suffering, as experiences are passed down from one generation to the next. In all three of these books, loss of freedom,
A story has to be told by somebody. Explore in detail your impressions of the “story-teller” in Mountains Beyond Mountains. Was the “story-teller” the same as the writer (implicitly or explicitly) or not? How does this question influence your reading?
Specifically in this novel, stories played a large role, which was to distract the minds of uneasy soldiers. Distract their minds from the possibility of death, their obligations, and whether or not they’d make it back home. When receiving a letter from a friend named, Norman Bowker about his guilt, O’Brien took this opportunity to support his belief that the most important part of a story is not its truth, but how the story makes one
Even though both men had carried on with their lives, after the war, their stories still live on and are their only relation they carry. The men never had anyone else to truly talk to after war, so when presented the opportunity to talk about their past the men still continue to tell their same stories. Both of the men still carry their emotional baggage, and the act of storytelling allows the men to escape their grief because they finally have someone to speak to. For a “... full day.... [they] talked about everything [they had] seen and done so long ago, all the things [they] still carried through [their] lives” (O’Brien 26).
These suggestions that O’Brien continually makes forces the reader to whether the details and people placed in the story change the impact on of the event. These commentaries made by Tim O’Brien are alludes to the notion of the power of emotional truth over factual truth. It is obvious to see that when these stories are being told that there is not much truth placed in them. For instance, Sanders confesses that he fibbed about a few aspects of his story about the men who heard voices in the jungle.
“We needed to remember Story. It was his job to set the memory in perpetuity. He spoke to us every week. Sometimes Story was focused on one area, like the first residential schools: where they were, what happened there, when they closed. Other times he told a hundred years in one long narrative, blunt and without detail.
What does this novel ultimately say about storytelling? The Poisonwood Bible claims that, in storytelling, everyone tries to reform their own version of their life into an appealing story, talking mainly about the struggles they face in their life and “how they live with it” (Kingsolver 492). Adah claims that all stories are exactly based off of this essential element, a type of archetype that has many archetypals, but are all still considered the same thing. For example, if a war hero wrote a story on his life in WWII and another writer, a biologist, wrote a story on a Grizzly Bear. Both are different in topic, setting, characters, and plot, but both address the story of a living being that lived and faced good times and hardships along the way.
In the novel Between the World and Me by Ta- Nehisi Coates wishes to communicate with his son by describing his life experiences on what it means to inhabit a “black body” in America. Ta-Nehisi views society with white privilege, racial integration and a country we 're authority figures abuse their power by aggressively assaulting a “black body”. Throughout the novel, the author integrates not only past experiences but also the past history of being an African American in the United States but also the abuses and hallucinations they faced. In the passage Ta-
The film “Solitary Nation” by Dan Edge had an impact on me as I was watching the film of the inmates’ lives in solitary while a new warden is trying to make a change for them. Although it was similar to other prison documentaries, it had more of a closer view to solitary than the normal prisons. It provided evidence of how torturing it could be after a certain time, and how the world is constantly full of that nature no matter what measures are taken. It depicted the causes of solitary on the inmates’ behavior, and how contradictory it is to have solitary confinement. Should solitary still be used as a way of punishment?
The constant interference of the two narrators creates ongoing disruptions of the story. In this short story by Kenan, the old man that is telling the story about the history of the town is kept being interrupted by a woman; contradicting the main storyteller, the old man, credibility of the story. The argument whether the main storyteller is telling the history of Tim Creek is being manipulated into what the old man wants the story to be like, or it is the truth. The prime example of this is when the boy, who is listening and learning the stories about his own town, told by an old man, is infatuated by the history. However, the woman kept interrupting the old man from telling the story saying “No such man ever exist” as the man was telling
I want you to know why story-truth is truer than happening-truth.” (171) In the brief chapter titled “Good Form,” O’Brien explained the importance of story-truth opposed to happening-truth. Throughout the novel, the author’s purpose is to use an undeniable sense of conviction to make us believe his stories so that we can deeply feel the same emotions he felt twenty years prior. “What stories can do is make things present.”
Between the World an Me perfectly delivers a message on race, racism, oppression, education, and slavery. Coates covers a lot of different topics in this book. He often uses real life stories to raise questions on certain issues in America. Coates tells this story to his son and the audience. Coates starts out in Baltimore, educates himself at Howard University, and forms a family in New York.
