Family Story: Story Retelling, Analysis

Family Story
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Institution
Introduction
Family stories are critical tales or narratives told at different occasion, for instance, during gatherings of family members, holidays or when sharing a meal. They are usually told by the parents to the children to impart in them particular virtues that will see them nature and grow into desirable human beings. Research indicates that 95% of parents share family stories across the globe because they are vital and only 5% do not share them due to lack of parental maturity and knowledge of the merits accrued by the stories. It is evident that family stories enhance distinction between families in that certain behaviors installed to the children is evident through the stories that creates these differences. It enhances the placement of a person into a community in accordance with its practices. Most importantly, the stories enable the integration of members of a family since they exhibit similar ideas that should be adhered by every offspring in its linage creating peaceful relation. This research seeks to analyze a story told over generations in my family and its implication to our generation.
Story Retelling
My father and mother always sound remorseful when they recall and reminisce on what happened to their parent’s lives as well as theirs in the past few years. They always narrate to my brother, sister, and I the difficult time they encountered when their parents were engaged in the search of freedom for their ancestral land in order to relive themselves from the feeling of bondage. The story arouses sympathy and it is purposely narrated to us to convey some meaningful information that helps us bond through empathy and pass it to the next generation. The story telling takes place at the dining room when taking our lunch or supper. At the start of the story, my father says, “the butterflies were annoying since they highly cost our parents great bloodshed in the search of freedom. The story is imbued with human sacrifice under limited time and resources culminating in gore which eventually led to the death of our parents and ancestors”. The story continues that our great grandparents used all weapons and tactics to fight back the colonialists. They were audacious enough to confront them one on one even though the disparities in arms was vast. Fortunately, most of them had gone to missionary schools and had learnt the colonialist’s language and their ways. Generally, the ancestors utilized all they had to seek for freedom with no fear to lose their lives but importantly to attain their goal to root out the dictatorial life imposed on them.
My mother talks of the role that women played in the struggle, narrating how it cost them days and nights travelling to reach their men so as to feed them and keep them healthy in order to continue with the battle. She goes on that they could leave their fragile unattended children behind, travel to their husbands, and ...