I read it all, I just didn't agree. Or rather, I didn't see that you were making much of a point. Yes, all stories can be broken down into their basic parts, and yes all stories can be embellished, and morality tales/fables are at the less embellished part of the spectrum and epic novels are at the higher end, and despite the embellishment or lack of, they can basically be saying the same thing. And a complicated story is perhaps several fables in one.
More interesting, is the way that different ways of communicating change the way a story is told. I find the sign language part interesting.
Not quite. Only some stories can be broken down like that, or embellished like that. If I were to lengthen Dishova, I would be adding new scenes, not new content. If I were adding new content, the story would change, not get just get longer. Perhaps I could at another thread, but that would really be another story that gets combined in.
I think that the point of the post was that fables are inherently a different medium than the stories we write. Either that, or I was sleepy and had no point.
My thoughts would be that fables and such are usually to either teach some moral or value or to scare children so that they behave. They have a lot of near-repeats in cultures all around the world that share very basic plot elements. My mom has about half a dozen different versions of Cinderella. The details are just to make it something that children want to pay attention to, and that the speaker or writer can have fun with. Because there is a very obvious purpous to the stories - the lesson - what that content is matters little. Change it for the audience so that they are delighted or whatever you want them to be. Also many of them started out as oral tradidtion, so having a basic plot with easily changable details is preferable. More recent works (Tolkien, your stories, whatever) are not created on so simple of plots, and are intended to amuse the audience with the whole of the work, not to teach a lesson or what-have-you. Thus, taking out the details or changing the details it makes it rather a different story.
Smart take. That makes a lot of sense, and coincides well with me, because I aways see the value in what things can teach. You're probably more correct in your thoughts that in what wrote.
"You're probably more correct in your thoughts that in what wrote." Funny I thought I did rather a better job of expressing myself here than I normally do about things. Obviously not perfectly (I`m far from a perfect person even if that were possible), but it sounded all right to me. Whatever. I am in a strange mood right now, and I should probably be ignored.
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More interesting, is the way that different ways of communicating change the way a story is told. I find the sign language part interesting.
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I think that the point of the post was that fables are inherently a different medium than the stories we write. Either that, or I was sleepy and had no point.
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Glad you understand what I said, at least.
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