Extra Credit Blog-Telling Stories

Everyone learns and tells stories. They help construct identities for ourselves and for our communities. Every culture has their own stories passed down form generation to generation. Each one of our lives could be considered a story. They are selected events that lead to a main point. However, every one has that one friend who tells pointless ones. Each story contains a plot, exposition, complication, climax and resolution. There are different kinds of stories such as narratives, fairy tales and my favorite urban legends. I enjoy the way they make you think and how they sometimes scare you. Some of the greatest stories are told through movies such as The Wizard of Oz. Salman Rushdie uses freeze frames to analyze its meaning. For instance one contains the image Dorothy on the road to Kansas with a bag in her hand. To me this shows her getting ready to run away from home when a tornado hits. This freeze frame summarizes this point in the movie perfectly because what i interpreted the exact plot from it. One scene can say everything according to Joe Morgenstern. And That's exactly what most freeze frames do.