Fact or Fiction - Lauren's Seventh Blog
In the recent blogs, people have discussed what they think about many stories having more than one version. Some people think it’s perfectly normal, others think that may discredit stories altogether.I believe that stories are meant to have more than one version. Think way back in the day before there was pens and paper and internet. How did people communicate? Through stories. Maybe not stories with words, but through stories. So if caveman A was talking to caveman B about a hunting trip, that’s one version of the story. But then caveman B goes to caveman C and tells him the same story but adds his own details. What he caught, what he saw, what he heard. Just a few details can change a story a lot.
Even now, when you tell stories, don’t you get the urge to change the facts, even just a little? Maybe you want to make it a little more dramatic or make yourself look better?
It’s only natural that stories from centuries or decades ago would get a little changed over time. I think it makes them interesting, not invalid.
posted by Anonymous @ 11:08 PM
4 Comments:
not going to lie, I do this all the time. I change the story for the different audiences, it's still generally the same story, just adapted to who I'm talking to, and my relationship to them. A different version of the same story still conveys the same points you are trying to reach, just by different means. I think that's where the different adaptations come from and perhaps why the same story has been told many different ways.
-Ann
I agree that stories change over time. People tell and interpret stories differently based on their own personal experiences. One's values affect what a person gets out of a story. However, I do think that certain stories can be discredited if they directly contradict one another. On the same level we can conclude that interpretations that are consistent with one another validate the story as a whole. Therefore, I think there are two sides to that coin with respect to different versions of the same story.
Welcome to the world of teenage gossip. Stories do get changed, like Ann admitted to, for different audiences. Some may be offended if you tell it a certain way, so you have to change it. Or going back to the gossip theme, exaggerations take place, and they spread, and in the end we have the lovely form of myths, or as I like to call them, popular gossip.
I just loved the way you told your story I had this image of cave man A and B and I know it was not actually the same thing you saw in writng this which illustrates your point!
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