Before we discuss the origins and history of storytelling, I'd like you to briefly describe your favorite story. Tell us whether it was from your childhood, or it was a recently discovered story. Is there interactivity? Suspense? An element of magic? Did you receive it through traditional or digital media? Does it follow a chronological timeline? What about the story makes it so memorable to you?
My favorite story is about a man who met another man who then began to ruin his life. At first the other man appeared to be his friend they even started an underground fighting ring together. Then man slowly started to rip apart the other mans life. First he burns down his apartment but appears friendly by letting him stay in his own personal home. The he ruins his love life and towards the end he ends up burning down the whole city. Towards the end of story we learn that friend was just a projection of himself! This story is very interactive because you would have never expected the man to end up to himself. The suspense is finding out how the man would destroy his friends life next. I received this story through the form of a paperback book.The story is very memorable to me because I read the novel Fight Club while I was going through a tough time in my life. Also I loved how I could not see the ending coming
ReplyDeleteMy favorite story is how my Granna and Pop fell in love. My Granna was with her friends at a public dance in their community when my Pop came up behind her and pulled her bow that was on the back of her dress. Granna said that he was being fresh by doing that and that she didn't like him. My Pop however knew it was love at first sight. Pop got her phone number from a friend and would call and ask her out on dates. She would say no, but after weeks of running into him and him calling, she agreed to go out with him. When Granna tells the story you can feel the love and magic of love while she is telling the story. I would listen to the story through Granna, so it would be more traditional and not digital media. The timeline is them falling in love. I love this story, because I can picture my Pop pulling the bow of Granna's dress, and Granna being sassy back. I also think it is funny that she refers to him being fresh because of it. It gives me hope that I can find innocent love like that someday.
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Stories that were told by my grandparents are ones that will always stick with me. When we are sitting around the dinner table at family parties we share stories and a lot of the times the same ones come up. No one really minds because they are just funny. The story is about my great grandfather and his brother. They never really got along but yet they decided to open up a bus garage together. My grandma would ramble on about stuff going on around that time and how things used to be. So we would get a bit of different information every time! Well as the story usually goes is that my grandfather was mad that his brother was always late for anything and everything. They would always be in fights and arguing about it. Sometimes we would hear about stupid fights they would have in the garage. But the story always ended up in the big fight story where the two of them ended up in a fistfight at the garage. And then as the story goes they end up in the pool behind the garage somehow yet they still fought. It is just funny because of how well everyone in the family got along. We always joke about the two brothers and just how silly it all seems now. Sometimes the story starts with remember when great grandpa got in the fight with uncle pooch. But I just love hearing the story because it is a part of my families past and the fact that almost everyone knows the story is great.
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My favorite story would be Katawa Shoujo it is the first and last visual novel made by 4leaf Studios, this game follows a main character who has health problems, he suffers from a weak heart and because almost anything can kill him, weather physical or emotional stress, he has to study in a special school for kids with disabilities. The story can take many paths as you can choose how he feels and acts to a certain extent, it turns into a romantic comedy with dark or heavy moments towards the end where you end with either a happy ending, a sad one or dead. It is interactive and even though I love magic and fantastic stories this one has neither. I learned about this game because it became very popular around the internet in sites I used to visit, the story is chronological and gives you a whole new view on the world and the people. What makes it the most memorable was that it was an emotional rollercoaster with well written story and different endings, comedy, romance and tragedy this was a good story.
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ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite stories was one my mom told me about my grandpa. My grandpa used to race cars when my mom was younger at a some local race tracks around the city that I lived. My mom would tell me they would go almost every Friday and Saturday to watch my grandpa race stock cars. He won many times but the story that stuck with me was when another drive hit my grandfather's car causing him to hit the cement wall on his right which made him flip his car and he crossed the finish line winning the race. At first I didn't believe her because it sounds too good to be true or too crazy to happen but she showed me a nice paper article of my grandpa's car and sure enough it was flipped over just after the finish line. My grandpa has been inducted into the hall of fame at two racetracks in Buffalo, New York. I received this story through traditional storytelling from my mom when I was about 13 years old. This is a memorable story for me because my grandfather passed away when I was 6 years old and I don't remember much of him.
I am actually reading a book right now that I am really enjoying it, and I think I could categorise it as one of my favourite books and storytellings. It is a book called "Open", and it is written by Andre Agassi, one of the best tennis players of all times. It is a printed book that my dad gave to me this summer, because he thought it would be a good idea to get to know the memories of an important athlete, so I could learn from him. Also, before I played basketball, I also played tennis, so I love that sport and I really like Agassi as an athlete. It is a book about the memories of his tennis career and his personal life. I love this book because is written by himself, and you can feel what he is talking about. The book is written from when he was a little kid, to when he officially retired. One of my favourite parts of the book is when he talks about how he hates tennis but at the same time he cannot stop playing it. However, in deep he does not hate and that is how he continues even though there are a lot of rough and very difficult moments. I really this story to myself because the dedication and the difficulty of being an athlete plus all the external situations that go around it, is exactly what I have to deal with. The fact that a tennis player like Andre Agassi talks about his fear to failure, his doubts, his worries, his own personal life that affects his sport, the fact that he talks openly about it showing that he is a normal person, and that he is also a human being, is what I love the most. Sometimes, when we watch athletes on TV we do not stop and think all the things that they had to go through in order to accomplish what they accomplished. I love the fact that he writes what he really feels and the readers can actually dig into it and relate to it. The title of the book is "Open", is a duality of the name given to tennis professional tournaments and the fact that he is opening up to his readers.
ReplyDeleteI hate picking favorites, especially when it comes to important matters like books, TV, music, or in my case, stories. Having been practicing journalism for almost four years now, I have learned to appreciate a good story when I see one. Still, it changes as they come. There's just so damn many of them.
ReplyDeleteRight now, my favorite story is Lane DeGregory's story about the Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck. I love the way Lane DeGregory tells a story. She manages to catch the details that the average person tends to overlook in a given scenario. Her telling of a seemingly over-told story about how a father threw his five-year-old daughter over a bridge manages to catch the details all other accounts overlooked: perspective. Why did this happen? Told chronologically, she combined interactive elements to give the whole picture of what was missed in Phoebe's case. There is video interview, photographs, audio, all elements necessary to paint the entire picture in the readers mind. She brings you into the case, raising the question: "What would you have done?"
The story is so memorable to me because of it's bluntness in her word choice. For example, one descriptive sentence describing the father-daughter relationship: "she was the light in his dark, stoned eyes."
I admire that DeGregory wasn't afraid to tackle the difficult story and managed to find a different angle traditional media outlets used, and tied together the whole story, filling in the missing pieces.
-Brianna
My favorite story is one that my Dad used to tell me when I was a small child. It's one that to my knowledge he had made up just for me. In the time since, I've not seen it elsewhere. The first time I remember hearing it I was about six, but I think he told it for longer than that.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad works nights, so we didn't do the traditional bedtime story thing that most families seem to do. Rather, he'd come home for work and sleep during the day and when I got home from school I'd go and shake him awake. Before he got up to make dinner, my Dad would tell me the story.
The story was about a little girl and he'd always ask who it was. I would shout she's named Rebecca (me) and he'd start calling her that. The girl faced a dangerous old man who locked away animals who could speak to her and freed them only to have the old man lock her up in the cage. Then all of the animals returned when the old man went inside to save her.
Everything ended happy of course, but there was a lot of suspense and even a little fear as the story progressed. There was a little magic with the animals being able to speak; and because I was asked questions throughout about the little girl it was also interactive. The story is chronological in its entirety. The only way that I've ever heard the story was through him telling it, and he does it much better than I could. The story really sticks in my head because it was (sort of) about me and my Dad was the one that told it. It mattered more because it was us spending time together.
-Rebecca Turner
A favorite story of mine is Harry Potter. It follows the story of Harry, a wizard, and his friends over their years at Hogwarts school as they regularly face the dark wizard Voldemort and his followers. The story of Harry and his growth as a wizard during his schooling at Hogwarts and beyond is a story I have been fond of since childhood. Although I have been exposed to the series through various forms of media, I was first introduced to the story through books. While there was no interactivity in a digital sense, the characters felt alive due to the fact that the series allowed you to watch them grow over an extended period of time. Along with an expansive cast of characters, the magical world it is set in makes the story memorable to me.
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My all-time favorite story is the Harry Potter series. It filled me with such wonder as a child to think about what it would be like to go to Hogwarts and fight evil wizards. The story was made even more significant because my father used to read all the books aloud to my sister and me. To this day, re-reading the books or going to Harry Potter world in Universal makes me feel magical.
ReplyDeleteHere is my favorite story, which I just read last week. A woman stay was walking out of her house. She saw three poor and tired men sitting in front of her house. She invited them into the house to get some food and water. However, the men asked her if her husband was home or not because they couldn’t get in if no man is home. Later, her husband came back and heard about three men, he told her to invite them in. When the woman told the men about her husband’s comeback, one of three men told her that only one of them could be invited, he was Money, the next one was Heath and the last one was Happiness. The woman came back her house and asked her husband who would be invited; the husband wanted Health while she wants Money. Suddenly, their daughter appeared and said her choice is Happiness. Because the couple was not sure who to choose, they accepted the daughter choice. The wife came out and told the men about her family’s decision. Then, three men stepped inside the house, which surprised her. Money explained that if the family chose him or Heath, the other two had to stay outside, but if Happiness was chosen, three of them could also get in.
ReplyDeleteThe story is chronological but still surprise me because of its end. I read it from a Vietnamese celebrity’s facebook. I think she was trying o convey a message about happiness. They key term of life is happiness: as long as you are happy, no material matters more.
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