Fairy Tales: ASL and folktales

I learned a lot of interesting things from Mr. Ricky Rose and Dr. Mark Rust about the ASL community as well as how they tell stories of many varieties.  Literature itself is generally composed for the eyes and not the ears.  Dr. Mark Rust composed a comparison of traditional literature and visual literature.  Traditional literature  the poetry creates images through the words, and how the poem is supposed to be read.  Prose in traditional literature also creates images through words in the paragraphs.  In visual literature, poetry is all about hand motions and emotions on faces as well as whole body movement.  Prose is also about motion, or how they are making videos from books, and movement of body for papers.
Literature has not made it easy for the ASL community to get involved.  In 1996 they removed ASL from "invented languages" to the Indo-european languages.  It goes against everything people have believed for such a long time, so it has been hard to accept their language as important as others.  Many believed that because people couldn't understand or because they didn't speak back, they were unintelligent.  However, thanks to the technology developments they are able to get more involved and communicate with each other.  The way that the ASL community tell stories is very interesting.  For example, how they tell narratives is just to inform each other and to be funny.
How the ASL community tells folktales is very interesting.  They change the stories around to make fun of the hearing community, which is very interesting but also reflects the oppression against them from so long ago.

I believe that the way the ASL community tells other from their community stories or their children stories is very interesting.  They put a lot more of themselves into it rather than just reading to them from a book.  It is almost a performance and stories form their community can be passed around as jokes about the hearing community, but it makes everything interesting and clever.  The stories that both Dr. Rust and Mr. Rose told us where very impressive and interesting.  It was more entertaining than any other story i've heard because it was a performance that was really impressive with emotion and passion put into every word.  Also the fact that in stories they do different perspectives.  It's very clear to tell which person is talking or moving.  It's like watching a movie, and there is a lot of build up.  There are perspectives as well as slow motion, close up, pan out, and many other different perspectives that can be told through sign language.  If only all stories were so moving and exciting to watch as well  as feel.