L Christina M

This week I decided to do a Story Lab over the TVTropes website. I was in for quite a surprise the moment I navigated to the website. As mentioned in the description, TV Tropes is not only about television but explores a wide variety of different types of storytelling whether it be through film, television, theatre, music, literature, or others. Some of the coolest ideas I found fell within these categories. Here is a bit more about what I discovered: 1. The Un-Hug I originally navigated to this specific place on the site because I saw Donald Glover in the image. I was in fro quite a surprise when I started reading. The article begins speaking about the phenomenon that exist in smashing two bodies together and calling it a "hug". Sometimes this action goes smoothly and to plan while other times we find that we just can't seem to perfect the task. It's actually vert strange when you think about it and I cannot even imagine how the "hug" came into existenc...

I loved reading about the Dogs in today's fables. I love that each set of stories is characterized, often by the principal character. One of my favorite animals are dogs so I'm think that I might use that to write my story tomorrow rather than just doing a collection. I can have separate stories but use the same principal character or set of characters. That way I am still staying true to the original idea of Aesop's Fables while still adding my own twists to the story. Here are some of my nights from today: 1. Once again, it seems to be following the same three stanza form. 2. This Time, each section is about a similar character just with a shift in focus. "The Hungry Dogs", "The Dogs In The River", etc... 3. Towards the end of this section some of the stories start to get longer. They still are quite short compared to other stories we've read throughout the semester but they now stretch to about 5 stanzas rather than just three or four. (a...

I have alot of experience with Aesop's Fables. In elementary school, I attended a private school that participated in a speech competition every year with other private schools in our state. I participated about four or five years in a row and almost every year someone in our group performed one of Aesop's Fables. The group as a whole often watched others rehearse and studied everyone else's speeches so I was able to research and learn about these fables whether I was performing them or not. When I saw that I had the opportunity to reread and brush up on some things I had forgotten, I definitely jumped right in. Here are some things I noted: 1. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a popular story but this is written in a very simplified and abbreviated fashion. 2. Maybe I should attempt to rewrite a series of stories in this same poetic form. 3. Each story is told in prose form. Many of them don't go beyond three or four stanzas. To make my own story long enough this week I mi...