Monday, September 17, 2007

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Since we were born, our parents or teachers like telling myths or some old stories to educate us. Some people to take this kind of stories very sincerely for theri lives guides. However, some people think it is just a story. Why some people think think these stories are important for them, but some don't? In chapter 5, it mentions that people usually get what they want from the stories. Therefore, if this story has something that we desire to get, we take it seriously.

In Taiwan, we have a lot of myths. These myths are used in the different ways, such as how the world is creatived or why do we only have one sun? These stories have included many impossibilities and fun, but it also have become the meanings of educating. Since we were young, we had no idea whether it was true or not; we just accept. After growing up, we might think these stories have their possibilities of existence for our imagination. It is possible that we could find something in these stories that we would never found in our real lives.

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At September 18, 2007 at 4:32 PM, Blogger irantoni said...

...as the author said "True places are not found on maps" and that storytelling puts us in an "altered state of awareness". That is the exciting thing about myths: read them line by line and you have "fantasy" but if you strip them down to their essence you have (a) truth. Some people do really believe the world was created in six days as but it is more the essence/main concept that is/could be (a) truth...

P.S.: Crawford gave a good statement about that in the last chapter we had for 634 class

 

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