Paige's Indian Epics

The Danger of a Single Story By: Chimamanda Adichie The first Ted Talk was very interesting, it taught me that we are not confined to write about what we have read about. We can change and make every single story our own with our own imagination. Not everyone is a "single story," there is much more to people and to a story than one aspect of it. So many people are thought of as single stories and are often thought of as only having one characteristic. Media can play a large part in forming our single stories, when we look at stories with only one point of view we are most often wrong. There is much more to people and places than one view or what we think we know. People are much more than one thing and if all people see are one thing then those other people become that one thing. One story is not representative of an entire population or ethnicity.  Imaginary Friends and Real Life Consequences  By: Jennifer Barnes We form para-social relationships with fictional...

The Wise and the Foolish Merchant By: Ellen C Babbitt begins by giving the setting of the story uses adjectives to describe characters comparison between both merchants dialogue between the two characters the problem is introduced describes thoughts from both characters description of the setting on their trip a new protagonist is introduced supernatural event trickery dialogue to make the trick happen first merchant was tricked second merchant who is smarter outsmarts demon smart merchant wins Ox carrying the merchant's wagon.

The Monkey and the Crocodile By: Ellen C. Babbitt provides intro to character and setting uses dialogue between the different characters uses dialogue to set up premise of story the trick is set into motion dialogue to express emotions of the characters the two characters pitted against each other trickery the monkey tricks the crocodile one is stupid and one is smart monkey is safe dialogue to taunt the other character the next plan is set up expression of emotions monkey tricks the crocodile again the two go their separate ways the monkey wins again The monkey and the crocodile