Storytelling Styles

Topic: My topic will involve the Animal Stories of Jataka. The first story I am thinking about using is The Monkey's Heart  and another story I am thinking about using is The Language of Animals Both of these stories offer up a lot of detailed animal stories that I look forward to reading into even more than I already have. I feel like I can be very creative with these stories and this topic, considering it discusses the previous lives of Buddha in human AND animal form. This two interesting, detailed stories will help me put together a very creative story in my opinion.


Bibliography:
1. The Monkey's Heart  The Jataka, or the stories, of Buddha's former birth, edited by E. B. Cowell, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895)
2. The Language of Animals The Jataka, or the stories, of Buddha's former birth, edited by E. B. Cowell, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897)

The Jataka Tales of the Buddha

Possible Styles


OU Campus: I think using OU's campus as a prime setting for my story would be very easy because I am familiar with all the areas of the campus and there are so many different areas you could use for cool settings for all of the animals. This would also give readers a good image of the story, considering most readers would be students of OU who are familiar with campus. Maybe each animal could have a different home such as Dale Hall, Price, The Union, etc.


Story told by the animals: This of course would be story told directly from the animals, which would be very interesting cause I could make into some sort of "animal language" by creating my own language in some sort of way.


Detective Story: I think this would be a really funny way to tell the story. I love any movie or TV show involving detectives so I am familiar with the way they talk and act and could use some of those TV shows and movies to help me write my story.


Neighborhood Gossip: This would also be a funny way of telling the story as this could combine with animal's telling the story. All of the animals could gossip about what is going on and throughout the gossip could be the main story line. I also think this would be a lot more fun to read if it was told in a gossip type way.