Storytelling
Storytelling
“Ever since mankind became imaginative, storytellers have been explaining everything people encountered, whether or not it was true.
These storytellers are modern humans most influential people.”- Donald Louis Hamilton (THE HISTORY OF STORYTELLING)
Today, stories are a normal part of our life. Movies, books, music, news media; even when we talk to our friends we usually tell a story. Traditional stories however began with oral stories and have been handed over from generation to generation.
Human imagination had given mankind the ability to communicate ideas among its people. It has given storytellers the power to emotionally enter people minds and thoughts; they can create either happy emotions or sad ones. Ever since mankind developed a brain capable of understanding ideas people began to invent words. Eventually these words became sentences and the sentences became a language, the language of a family or a tribe. Some imaginative people in the tribe began using the words to tell stories that happened to them, they noticed that with their imagination other stories could be created and told. There are thousands of different languages, however without understanding each other different tribes created similar stories such as Cinderella. (THE HISTORY OF STORYTELLING)
Even though nobody knows when the first story was told; we believe that the origin of storytelling may have come across as an excuse for failure. Or maybe stories were used a long time ago to calm the fears of a family. As families grouped with other families they eventually formed a large group.
The storyteller was usually good at telling heroic evens or other important events, often other people; young or old had respect for the storyteller. This way the storyteller became powerful, people found the stories interesting and started listening to them, the stories went with them. When they returned home, they brought with them new
“Ever since mankind became imaginative, storytellers have been explaining everything people encountered, whether or not it was true.
These storytellers are modern humans most influential people.”- Donald Louis Hamilton (THE HISTORY OF STORYTELLING)
Today, stories are a normal part of our life. Movies, books, music, news media; even when we talk to our friends we usually tell a story. Traditional stories however began with oral stories and have been handed over from generation to generation.
Human imagination had given mankind the ability to communicate ideas among its people. It has given storytellers the power to emotionally enter people minds and thoughts; they can create either happy emotions or sad ones. Ever since mankind developed a brain capable of understanding ideas people began to invent words. Eventually these words became sentences and the sentences became a language, the language of a family or a tribe. Some imaginative people in the tribe began using the words to tell stories that happened to them, they noticed that with their imagination other stories could be created and told. There are thousands of different languages, however without understanding each other different tribes created similar stories such as Cinderella. (THE HISTORY OF STORYTELLING)
Even though nobody knows when the first story was told; we believe that the origin of storytelling may have come across as an excuse for failure. Or maybe stories were used a long time ago to calm the fears of a family. As families grouped with other families they eventually formed a large group.
The storyteller was usually good at telling heroic evens or other important events, often other people; young or old had respect for the storyteller. This way the storyteller became powerful, people found the stories interesting and started listening to them, the stories went with them. When they returned home, they brought with them new
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