Southern Story Telling Analysis

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Southern Story Telling – The Lost Art With the rise of television in my generation, and now the internet and Netflix, children are not being told the stories as in times past. Storytelling was a way to communicate lessons, morals, ethics, and second hand experiences. I propose research of storytelling in the South, identifying 10 or so of the top stories that were told.... their origins, (usually from Europe) and the evolution of how they were modified and changed to be set in the South. I would like to conclude the project with a slightly modernized version of the tales, bringing the morals, advice, and ethical lessons into a book format that I can pass to my grandchildren. MLA has been the formatting style I’ve used most often in Life …show more content…
My self-evaluation is that thirty years of business, computer science, and financial focus have narrowed my scope and perception of the world around me. I wanted to look at situations and people with a broader view and thereby improving my analytical abilities as well as my leadership skills. I have truly enjoyed the writing classes, especially those focusing on my memoirs. In recent years, I’ve adopted the philosophy of some of our sales staff; everything is a story to be told. Selling to a customer is about telling a relatable and understandable story of the company and the product. Family gatherings always include a story of recent or past events that will be retold and passed along. This created my interest in remembering and researching the origins of the stories told by my grandmother and other relatives when I was a …show more content…
The Southern culture has been influenced by stories originating in Europe, Africa, and Native Americans, specifically the Cherokees. I considered taking several of the stories of my childhood and researching their origins, but I now believe I will research the stories of the Appalachians, the Gullahs, the Cherokees, and other European folk tales and select those that resonate with my memory and preferably ones that haven’t been commercialized such as “The Three Little Pigs.” I want to find the stories that are unfamiliar to the children of today that carry the messages of the past. I know that while two of the “Brer Rabbit” tales were presented in Disney’s “Song of the South”, there are others that can be considered for the final selection of this project. There are storytelling groups in the region that I will contact to determine if they are a viable resource for this project, as well as contacting various Folk Lore/Arts organizations. However, I believe my greatest source of information and education will come from reading research of others. But the road is unknown and I am open to whatever direction it takes me to arrive at my destination. I will find and read as many of the books listed in the Potential Bibliography as feasible to have a robust knowledge of the
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