Documenting Fairy Tales

When your mom or dad reads you a fairy tale, it has a great impact on you as a child. Because they usually add their own dramatic elements such as funny voices for each of the characters within the tale or the way they narrate the story, being a told a fairy tale orally makes it much more entertaining and amusing. Reading a fairy tale, you still get what it accomplishes to do in ways of analyzing theme,morals, symbols, etc. but an entire piece to the fairy tale world seems missing. You don't get that feeling that it is a tale, but more like a short story. A tale for me is someone telling a story to you orally as in something they heard or something that was passed down from what their parents had told them. Documenting fairy tales lose some impact. Listening to them makes the story come to life a lot more than reading it. Why do so many people use audiotapes for books instead of actually buying the book itself. They want to hear someone tell it, adding voice and articulation increases one's imagination of the world and the characters that inhabit it. Plus oral storytelling is one of the oldest ways of hearing a story, because there was a time when no one knew how to write. If you wanted to stimulate your imagination, you sat by the fire in your house and listened to your mom and dad tell you a story about a world that may or may not be true. Most of the time you had to decide.