Reflection Paper On Storytelling - 1696 Words

Storytelling: A Reflection of Ourselves What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think of storytelling? Is it the countless nights you laid in bed as a child listening intently to stories that made you believe you could be and do anything; you could be a pirate day and an astronaut tomorrow or even a detective outsmarting the bad guys like Sherlock Holmes and Watson or Nancy Drew. Or perhaps you think of that lecture in your high school or college history class when your professor showed you a documentary or a movie that introduced you to a part of the world, group of people, or a movement like The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 or Rob Marshall’s adaptation of Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha that left you with a hunger†¦show more content†¦I grew up as a Pastor’s grandchild, a wholly different experience than my mom’s complicated experience as the â€Å"Preacher’s kid†. As a pastor my grandmother has what I always thought was an unwavering belief system in which God is everything, school wouldn’t get you to heaven, men were meant to sow their wild oats, and women were meant to diligently wait for their return. These were the lessons, the stories she impressed upon her children and left whispers upon the grandkids. However, I saw a remarkable change in my grandmother as she retold the sparse narratives of our family history to my sister and me. What I saw in my grandmother was self-reflection, reflection of the seemly unending cycle of uneducated women with babies to feed, no men insight, and grandsons toddling behind. In Why Stories Matter Marshall Ganz states that there are three parts to building stories that create social change, change that propels us forward not alone but together: â€Å"a leadership story is first a story of self, a story of why I’ve been called†¦the second story is the story of us†¦what experiences and values do we share as a community†¦ [then] there’s the story of now† (Ganz, pars. 13-15). These three stories can be found in my grandmother’s transformation. She found the story ofShow MoreRelatedStorytelling As A Form Of Storytelling1008 Words   |  5 PagesFurthermore, storytelling becomes a form of physical and psychological torture that the characters try to escape. There are two perspectives that torture illustrates in the plays. Torture as a form of storytelling is sharing the stories, but also how stories are told. The Pillowman forms storytelling as torture when the Tupolski and Ariel interrogate Katurian to expose his ide ntity through his stories. 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