Brothers Grimm: Oral vs. Written

Reading the tales makes for an interesting experience because you are entirely dependent upon the author's descriptions for your understanding of the characters and the places. By this I mean that there are none of the elements which connect the stories to the reader–like hearing someone create voices and facial expressions for the characters–and as a result, the characters tend to fall flat, especially because of the blank dialogue and stiff narrative which conveys the bare minimum of the characters' emotions and thoughts. So, I think the aspect that would most benefit from being oral recounted is the portrayal of characters. Even this book gives readers a bit of a boost beyond the narrative because of the intricate illustrations that accompany most of the tales: they give readers images of the characters, and even something so limited as an image can create a much stronger connection for the reader to the stories than would otherwise exist.