Storytelling

The narrative examines the concept of storytelling as a means of processing and attempting to understand external stimuli, as exemplified by the narrator’s imagined story as a function of reappropriating and reconstructing external experiences. This idea is first established via the inception of the young narrator’s imagined story. The narrator states that he had a habit of constructing “whole linear, discretely organized narrative fantasies, many of which unfolded in considerable detail” (71). The narrator also notes that before began to imagine the specific story on the day of the main incident, he saw two dogs outside of his classroom, as well as the neighboring school for the blind and deaf. The sight of the dogs reminded the narrator of the dog that his family supposedly once owned and then gave away. The narrator thusly began to internally compose a story about a blind girl named...