The Art Of Storytelling How An Individual Can Recover...

The Art of Storytelling Storytelling is an art that can take many forms. Stories engage people on all different levels and the greatest pathway to tell a good story is the use of emotion. It can also serve as a medium to communicate unsaid emotions. Stories educate and also preserve history by passing it carefully on to the next generation. Each person has a different story. One story is a just as fascinating and unique as the other and at some point in life one gets to realize that no two stories are exactly alike. Telling stories also present a way of understanding one’s life with a deeper understanding and meaning. Stories matter and sometimes all a person wants is a listener or just a way to know they are being heard. Very often, one†¦show more content†¦With fewer members of the congregation recovery is taking a longer process in the church than supposed to. She not only lose her grandmother who was very dear to her, she is also afraid for her brother because lif e in jail can be very hard and she fears he might not survive it. Joe is her younger brother and she feels she is supposed to protect him but their relationship have changed over the years. In his letters she sees the disconnection they share as a family. As a society one is generally taught to avoid feeling or displaying of emotions. Joe’s letters shows the silence that exists within their relationship as siblings. Tretheway explains â€Å"if something isn’t spoken, it isn’t fully known and we can absolve ourselves of the responsibility that knowing entails† (Tretheway 102). In Froma Walsh’s article on â€Å"Traumatic loss and major disasters: strengthening family and community resilience†, Walsh explains how sharing details about a hurtful event can aid recovery and different families have different motivation to help victims recover. Walsh also explains that when loss of any kind is suffered one should not expec t the victim to have a firm decision on when to start or to stop grieving. She also explains that the main purpose of finally starting to grief is not to aim for closure but to simply get the strength to get up and move on with life. Grief is the body’s natural response to loss. It is a kind of suffering