Today is the age of computer and technology and most of the past features are contradicted as old. Many of the things are devalued and their colors faded. Even some things swept away in the flow of modernization but a few existed as they were in the past. But Telling a story is lived in our homes in and its beautiful features are present with the same shining as they were in back times
The years passed, and now I remembered the days when I listened the stories of dogs, lions, and other animals. The story teller was may be my elder brother or he was my grandfather. The stories that I mostly liked were the stories of greedy dog, the savage animals and that of an old lady whose pop was taken by a crow. All the children, like me, were so much interested in these stories that they always wanted to listen these stories for the whole of the night. But they always slept when the story was going to an end and for the next day they requested the story teller to start from the same initial point.
The art of telling stories of kids is a beautiful part of our local culture. The thing that actually matters is the way in which an elder attracts the attention of children. I’m also story teller and I know how my nephew will attract to listen me. The two things, that I think, really enhance the joy of stories are, one how colorful and beautiful is the story and the other how the story can make its roots in child’s imagination. If you are successful in creating a colorful story and the child feels himself as a part of story. Then you are a good story teller.
There are different sorts of children in our homes. Some children liked the stories of darkness, clearly mentioned as the stories of giants, churails, hags and the ghosts etc. when these kids are listening to such type of stories, you will observe that they are so much lost in the stories that they are seeing something in the airs. Actually their imagination is working in their brain. They are finding themselves in a magic world where they are griped in the hands of a big giant and a ghost with his sharp horns is coming towards them. The ghost wants nothing but a child’s blood. Such type of children are fearless and brave.
Some children feel the beauty of stories, they smiled on a lovely thing just like the dialogue of a fox and a crow or on weeping scene of a peacock. Such children find themselves on the bed of roses or on the bank of a beautiful pond in a vast jungle while listening a story. They love animals especially cats and always cackle. They have romantic approach towards the life. This seems quite funny but it is true at all.
I think, in my senses, that listening the stories is beautiful feature of one’s childhood. These stories create boldness and braveness in children. They develop an inquiring mind and build a moral character in a child. I find it is unfortunate that a child does not have such a childhood.
22-09-2008
