Nadeshiko

 Problems of storytelling

Storyteller is a Spanish girl. She told me the story with Spanish tune, and sometimes I couldn’t understand what she said. She just started learning Japanese, so absolutely it is difficult to her to pronounce Japanese. And in the process, she had to repeat to let me understand the whole sentences. We skip some parts, because time is limited. As we all know, in Japanese, even “romaji” is same, but the accentuation will change meaning. Taking “kasa” as a example, when the stress falls on the first syllable of this word, it means umbrella, meanwhile when accentuate the second syllable of this word, it means high places. In the nadeshiko’s story, “romaji” wasn’t accentuated, so it was hard to me to understand which word she wanted to say.

ranking of characters

(1) nadeshiko: She is so brave to pursuit her love. What’s more, she never give up even when she is refused by her friend. But I don’t like the mean of going throw river. It may has other ways to solve the problem without betrayed her love.

(2) husband : He is so kind to marry a woman even he doesn’t love. I can’t give more details because we didn’t finish the story.

(3) friend: He has a right to refuse doing something he doesn’t want to, but it is so mean to turn her down.

(4) boatman: Offer a rude option to a trapped people.

(5) lover: He is so rude to let a lady down who go through a long distant alone just for him.

Questions

(1) What is the biggest problem in storytelling?

(2)Why it become the biggest problem to communicate?

(3)How can you improve the way of communicating?

(4) Which character is your favor?Why?

(5)Which character is the worst one? Why?