oral history

Oral History Have you ever read Oral history in your life? Oral History is the study of historical information recording of interview with people having personal knowledge of past events. For many years, authors have written myths, fables and parables. The problem lays arguments of whether oral history is reliable. I believe oral history depends positively in our society because oral teaches something about life. Also oral history is meant to explain a bigger picture. But sometimes, oral might mislead in some parts. Have you ever learn lessons from myths, fables and parables? The importance of oral history is reliable because it teaches something about life and so that we could fix our mistakes by reading oral histories. According to an article called, “The Odyssey” by Homers stated “Menelaus and Helen received him graciously as their guest. The ties between guest and host were strong. Each was bound to help and never harm the other. But Paris broke the sacred bond.” It gives a lesson to learn in our life by reading a few sentences from The Odyssey. Menelaus and Helen overstay the host welcome and based on this, we should learn that we are not supposed to overstay your welcome. Sometimes guest overstay hosts welcome and it is so annoying. If you were this type of the person, you should learn a lesson from here in order to fix your problem. In addition, the article called, “The Power of Myth” by Joseph Campbell stated, “No, mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry. It’s important to live life with the experience. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life.” Since Oral histories are not a lie, oral history always gives a true life lesion. By reading Fable stories, we learn a lot of themes and we can recognize the positive and negative moments of our life. Everybody is not perfect, we all made mistakes in our life. But sometimes by reading the fables, we actually learned the lessons in order