storytelling

I think that there should be a slim amount of distance between a storyteller and the story told. In media today people are given a certain role to play as characters. They have the choice whether to accept or reject the role available. Many people would accept just because of the money that is involved, not their belief in what is right or wrong. An example of this could be used with the Simpsons. I personally don't watch this show much, but from the glimpses i have seen, it seems to be very disrespectful and blasphemous towards God. The voices of the characters I believe would not agree to play a certain part unless they have no problem and agree in what they are saying. I would not try out for a tv show character part if I didn't agree with the characters lines that they speak. I would never go on television cussing and drinking unless my personal values believed that there was nothing wrong with doing that. Also, if a parent reads a story to their child, usually they would not read a horrific book, unless they believe that it is fine to expose a child to evil. So therefore, I think that a person's values should be reflected in the character role or story they are portraying.

Adolescence II

As the girl is in the bathroom "waiting" it is at night time. She is sweating as she waits nervously on the bathroom floor. Coming in from her blinds are slices of light. It is completely dark in the bathroom except for that ounce of light. Next, the three seal men are another example of an encounter to darkness. Seals have dark black skin and these particular ones have large round eyes with sharp eyelashes. Overall this particular man seal represents a dark mysterious feeling not only to the reader, but to the girl who sits alone in the bathroom. The seals rise "like pools of ink under

moonlight and vanish." They are dark and yet the girl can see glimpses of them by the light of the moon shining in. She "clutched at the ragged holes they leave behind, here at the edge of darkness." The girl hates the

darkness that surrounds her as it "rests like a ball of fur" on her tongue. A fur ball is usually associated with cats as they cough them up and spit them out. This girl must have a huge dislike of the darkness, which seems to consume her in the bathroom.

Break Down of Words

I think the breakdown of words occurs in our inadequate system of language, rather than not understanding reality. Karl Albrecht said if you, "change your language, you change your thoughts." Since we as humans have thoughts that always are changing, our language is as well. A meaning of one thing to me, can be completely different to someone else. Also, communication can take place not only through speaking, but through body. An example of this is sign language. If i signed the word "hearing" to a deaf person, they could interpret that different ways, if i don't specify. I could be asking them if they were hearing or telling them i was hearing. Expressions and your body have a lot to do with communicating in a language. Oliver Wendell Holmes comments on language saying its the "blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow." Our language has given people the ability to express themselves and grow in the words which they speak. Each person gives different meanings to words. Today in class we read "Toast." The snowman says "toast is when you take a piece of bread-what is bread? Bread is when you take some flour-what is flour?" The cycle goes on and on only ending up to nothing. The snowman then said that he was toast. The more words are thought about, they are heavily questioned and sound very weird. We feel as though we can not express our language properly at times.

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/language/
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Language/1/index.html
"Toast" Orynx and Crake by Margaret Atwood