Thursday, August 29, 2013
Neverland
I would define story telling as any form of communication between two or more individuals through text, non-verbal, or oral interaction that is not directly related to a current conversation or topic. Let me try to explain my thoughts.
If I am talking to someone about my day and explaining the different experiences, conversations, and people I encountered, that would be considered a story. If my wife wants to go out to dinner and together we decide where we would like to eat, that is not a story.
I believe story telling is a thriving art. I do not believe that everyone is a good storyteller. But we begin to tell stories at such a early age with make believe, we have had many years of practice by the time we are adults. Story telling is the way journalists, lawyers, annalists, and many other professions make a living. Story telling is alive and well.
By definition of the book, Neverland is a place that we go with our minds to escape our realities. Weather that is for 14 seconds at our cubicles, or in the middle of one of our proffessors lectures, Neverland is personal and unique to each one of us. Neveland is an escape from our mundane lives.
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I hadn't thought about it in quite that way. I really like your definition of storytelling (I feel it is much more organized than my own thoughts). I also agree that Neverland is an escape from our mundane lives.
ReplyDeleteMatt's observation that storytelling, in the form of Neverland, is an escape that is always with us, even "for 14 seconds at our cubicles," is similar to Anna's comment that "Neverland is at lunch." And it raises a similar question to the one that I posed after reading Anna's entry. That is, what are we escaping _from_ if the escape is always there?
ReplyDeleteneverland is who we are in a way. that is what i believe because if we did not have it would drive us crazy.
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