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Once Upon A Time…

            Hey guys, my name is Monica Siegenthaler and I’m going to be talking about Family, particularly storytelling in families. I chose to study family because I work with families and children. Everyone has a family weather its one you have lived with your whole life or if it’s one that you made yourself. Our society, every society, the entire human race is made up of families.  

I am really excited to talk about storytelling. I’m a theatre major so storytelling is a big part of my life. As far back as I can remember stories have been a big part of my life and a part of my family. My mother use to tell my sister, two brothers and me stories since we were very small. These stories were told to her by my grandmother, who was told them by her mother and so on as far back as we know. She told stories from all over the world about magic sticks in sacks, donkeys that could spit gold, giants with golden hair, bears that stared wars with birds and three brothers always searching for the greatest wonder in the world. My mother told us the stories tell us how to live and why. I have no idea how I will bring up my children but I know I will tell them stories.

            Storytelling is a huge part of our society, it doesn’t stop when we are young. We watch movies, read books, and talk about our own stories.  If someone said to you today “This one time me…” (or one of the other many ways we start) then you heard a story. A story, a legend, a myth starts with an event that you or someone else witness. You tell someone about it, then they tell someone else but they tell it differently then you did. They emphasize on different details and parts. The person they told it to tells someone else and so on until a month, a week, a day, a few hours later someone tells you the same story, so changed that you don’t even recognize it.