Ch. 7 Narratives

I’ve always wondered how people told such good stories. I know good stories but I could never tell them. People seem to bore when I’m in the middle of telling a story. What I learned in this section is that “when telling a story, you must choose what information to include and what to leave out, where to begin the story and where to end it, how much of the story’s moral or main point you want your audience to figure out for themselves and how much you want to state outright.” This is why I don’t think great story telling comes naturally to everyone it’s just way too much to organize. Moving along, in a speech you want to use narratives to help the audience identify with the topic and get them engaged. It would probably make for a good hook to start your speech with. Narratives could be used to describe your own experiences, related events, organizations values, or cultural stories. By choosing the right approach when using a narrative it can really help your audience identify the moral of the story which should be your main point.  I also like to point out how choice of words helps your narrative a lot also. For example, the cultural story in the book about the blind lady just has a soothing tone to it at first but by the end of it you start to worry or get confused like the lady herself. I believe that the choice of words and tone of the story gave it that effect even though you were just reading the story; you could still imagine her voice telling it.