Memorization is perhaps the most import aspect of the oral tradition. There was not much difficulty for me in remembering the story. The only problem I ran into when recording what I heard was in the recollection of specifics. I remembered the basics of the story but lacked a little of the smaller details, but most importantly I forgot some of the names. In the story How Death Came to Earth I had forgot the names of some of the spirits. It was especially hard since they were native American names; being a 16 year old boy from Connecticut I have not been extensively introduced …show more content…
After all many great works that people loved to read were not redacted originally. Instead they were passed on orally from generation to generation, until they were finally redacted or lost. However this orality of a story can enhance it and its message; doing this by increasing the power of its words. Also a good reader can immensely increase interest in the story. However many people who function fine today may not be abled to deal with having to memorize, and retain, the spoken word in order to learn new things. This shows that even though people from hundreds of years ago are seen as not as intelligent, compared to intelligence in our modern times, they were certainly intelligent to be able to not only memorize knowledge given to them but to retain it as