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- Title
The Stories We Tell.
- Authors
Howard, Blanche
- Abstract
The article discusses why humans are compelled to arrange facts into stories. According to the author, she thinks people are compelled to write stories to give their brains something it can work with. She says that over the years, historians have struggled to reduce the major significant events into historical narrative, however, it did not satisfy the curiosity of people because some minor events are missing. She emphasizes that people want to know the story of their forebears from beginning to end, because they want to belong and belonging means knowing where they came from.
- Subjects
NARRATIVES; HISTORY; SCHOLARS; HISTORIANS; ORAL history; DIARY (Literary form); FAMILY storytelling
- Publication
Transition (00494429), 2007, Vol 37, Issue 3, p3
- ISSN
0049-4429
- Publication type
Article