Story Structure

We've outlined our topic of Storytelling for People with Disabilities in a story structure form. Use this tool as a road map to find your way through our blog. Start at the beginning (initial action) and you'll never know what you might learn on your journey!

This story structure is supported through the use of the fable "The Lion and The Mouse" to help illustrate our project about storytelling to people with disabilities.  

Setting:

• Time: Anytime
• Place: Anywhere

Character Summary:

Character Traits:

• Lion: Represents how anyone can have a disability regardless of whether or not it is visible. 
• Mouse: Represents someone who exceeds expectations that are placed on them because of their disability. In this story mouse is small but mighty.

Literary Role:

• Protagonists: People/ animals overcoming adversity
• Antagonists: People/ animals who are unequipped with the knowledge necessary to understand the world of people with disabilities.

Relationship to Others:

•  The relationship portrayed between the lion and the mouse represents the complex relationships faced by those with and without disabilities in our society.

Motivation:

• Like the mouse, our projects strives to educate people about the adversity faced by those with disabilities. With this new understanding and knowledge we can approach stories with a more holisitc approach.

Events:

x Initial action: How To



-Why are we telling this story?


-Things to be aware of


- Ongoing reflection

-Who benefits?/ Advantages

Looking at the Structure in a Different Perspective:

* Its important to think of this process in a circular relationship with a starting point but with no definitive end. The process is continually working to strengthen the process of storytelling.

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