Today, my storytelling workshop in Gouda, has us looking at the structure of the standard folk tale. This gets me thinking more about the sequences for Anancy spiderman stories that I plan to retell. Peter Fruhmann explains to us how with traditional folk tales you have:
- Context – where the characters and setting is explained
- Turning point – where the problem is introduced
- Action – where the characters in the story react to the problem
- Reversal – where more things go wrong
- Resolution – the story dilemma is resolved and the characters react to that resolution