Chapter 7 Lessons in Storytelling

In this chapter, I learned how stories are told in step by step processes.  I can understand how certain scenes can evoke emotional responses in our brains.  I was most intrigued by the idea that Aristotle and Plato, the Greek Philosophers I learned about in my Gen Ed. Ethics class described the notion of narrative structure and that he proposed a three act structure for plays.  This is known as the setup, conflict and resolution.  When I was a little kid, I went to a program called LindaMoodBell where I had to use felts to describe each scene in stories read to me in the book of Visualizing & Verbalizing.  It taught me how to re-tell stories step by step.  I struggle a lot with thinking in concepts.  I learned the idea of concept mapping when working with the lady that provides student services at Benedictine University, which I work with regularly.  Concept mapping helps me be able to understand stories, lectures and class material readings better.

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Anjana Rao