The Sand Child Essay Questions

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1) Due to the oral tradition of the novel, there are a number of different voices. What effect is created for the impact of the novel through the interplay of these voices? Storytelling is highly cultural as it can be found in every culture. Storytelling combines new ideas with the likes of others while still relating back to the main story that is trying to be portrayed. Like within the presentation, the story telling in Morroco like many other Cultures follow a loop, that states the claim, explains, and then rebuilds so that time can advance a little bit more into the present-future. This being said Tahar's Book the Sand Child communicates the effect of Confusion towards the time, but ends up creating a detailed explanation for the …show more content…

This can be answered by just looking upon the cultural context of the book. Within THe sand child there are Story tellers that tell and reveal different parts of the story. In Morroco, even up to today, there are story tellers that captivate crowds and detail stories of new and old without needing a book. The Sand Child contains the story tellers that keep a story and maintain the interest of all listeners. However, as more story tellers picked on the story and accused the previous storyteller; the story grew confusing as readers and listeners begin to question the credibility of each story teller. Story telling is a line of work or simply a hobby that the storytellers do and they get paid for it. This being said, the longer they can keep the crowd interested and listening to them the more cash they will make. The credibility becomes questionable with storytellers as constantly hearing acusations of wrongness from other story tellers builds onto a new twist to the story but confuses the listeners to what is the correct story. As the Story progresses, the Endings created by the 3 storytellers communicating to the end of Zahra/Ahmed portrays that same effect of confusion, but it opens up different paths the story could have went forth

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