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The Fire That Burns Forever By Brandon Habursky

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The Fire That Burns Forever By Brandon Habursky Human history has traditions that have lasted for centuries. A tradition that has always been around is storytelling . We all have stories. The reason we know anything about our ancestors is mainly due to the tradition of storytelling which allowed us to learn more about some of the first people on the Earth. This brings us to the main ancestor of what the document focuses on: the ancient African Bushman /Xam culture. In the documentary, The Broken String- Het verhaal van een verloren taal, by Saskia van Schaik, it shows us how the /XAM helped shape our traditions to the present. Throughout the documentary, we see Wilhelm Bleek, a German linguist, and his wife, Lucy Lloyd, trying to uncover …show more content…

We see that the /XAM had a great passion for the landscape. The documentary showed us the love that the /XAM had for the land. It also portrayed how well the /Xam were able to live off of the land. Furthermore, the documentary clearly shows that they are an ancient tribe, as they call them the last hunter-gather culture in Earth’s human population. Being a hunter-gatherer tribe, they were always taught to live off the land. The documentary mentioned another aspect of /XAM culture was the language of which they spoke. Not many people were recognized with the tribe's language before Bleek set out to test. It is a unique aspect of their culture as many languages do not have a distinct clicking sound embedded into their language. The culture that Bleek uncovered allowed us to be introduced to multiple stories that we had never heard …show more content…

As we saw in the beginning, there is a parade and images of fire. Several people associate celebrations with these items, but they can also represent our end. In terms of the documentary, we saw it end with images of fire. If we can relate this to human history, we can see that this story of fire has an everlasting effect on society. Every civilization has a fire or a beginning, but every civilization has fallen once before. The difference from a civilization to storytelling in this context is that stories, no matter if they are written or orally transcribed, will stand the test of time. This can be related to the /XAM culture as they could have been easily forgotten if Bleek did not devote his time to learning of their stories. The documentary excels at giving off a strong sense of what stories mean to us, and why we should cherish these stories and memories in our life. It also shows that there is a story we can all find interesting in life, but we need to find it and actually arrive at that point to make that story possible. Bleek’s determination and utter interest allowed him to even be in this document. Their journeys made it possible to understand as there was an initiative to find out the story. These actions cemented these stories into humankind's books, and have granted that these stories will last forever like an everlasting

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