The prompt that I looked at:
What are the major differences or similarities between the ethos of the creation story or stories you are familiar with and the story King tells in The Truth About Stories ?– Dr. Erica Paterson
I grew up with very religious grandparents, which no matter what you thought it was wrong compared to them. You were not able to have any other thoughts or feelings than the ones that the bible provides. The creation story is something they believed in whole-heartedly and won’t even consider anything else that could have happened. Even though other opinions of what happened, which have just as much validity.
But there are many things that are not answered when it comes to these stories. Who was here first? Why did they create what they did? Are we supposed to be learning something from every story that is told?
These are things that no one really has the answers to. And that no one will really find the answers to. It is interesting to hear all the variations of what people think happened to create the world that we live in today.
Work Cited
Paterson, Erika. “Lesson 3:5.” ENGL 470A Canadian Literary Genres May 2015. U of British Columbia. Web. 26 June 2015.
Hi! I am wondering, by growing up with strictly religious grandparents, did it turn you towards or away from their version of the Creation story? How did their religion affect your religion (if you adhere to one)?
Hey!
I found that with them shoving down my throat that there was defiantly rebellion on my end for it. I think the creation story is defiantly an interesting one, but I am not pulled one way or another on it. I personally don’t have a religion that I focus on more than another.
Thanks
-Kathryn
Hey! I have similar questions to Alyssa, but to further that: do you think there are any creation stories that do a better job of “explaining the unexplainable” than the one you grew up with does? If so, what are they and how did you come across them?
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I haven’t really found a story yet that “explains the unexplainable”. That being said I haven’t really sought them out.
Thanks
-Kathryn
I think a good addition to your article would have been the dialogue in which Dr. Joe Hovaugh argues with John and Eliot about the accuracy of his version of the Indians’ disappearance:
“Joe . . . Joe, we’ve talked about this.”
“It’s in the book,” said Dr. Hovaugh. “I didn’t make it up. The Indians disappeared on July eighteenth, 1988.”
“Yes,” said Eliot, “but that doesn’t prove anything.”
I think your grandparents could easily take on the role of Dr Hovaugh while you could play the questioning part of Eliot.
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I completely agree with that I should have added this in my blog! Would have made the point even better. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks
-Kathryn
Hi Kathryn! Sorry for the late comment, but I couldn’t not leave a reply on your post since I was pretty much raised the same way, mostly by my mom. She’s a full-hearted Christian and refuses to believe any other creation stories besides what she was thought at church. Which is very hard for me and my siblings, especially since we’ve formed a more progressive outlook and have exposed ourselves more into facts and science. Even though my dad is on our side, our mom still holds her own beliefs, which is respectable enough. We can all have our own belief system as long as we don’t shove it in other people’s faces. But I saw in one of your comments that it was forced upon you and that sucks.
And since you don’t really have a religion you follow, did King’s writing on the different creation stories at least persuade you on the most plausible one or at least shone a better light on the Genesis story (ie his twist on the Old Woman and Eve with the forbidden fruit or Coyote as a Native version of the Christian God, etc) than what you were thought? Since I found his writing to not only be very clever but also convincing in a way that’s not forced, but humorous enough to gain my attention and add it to the many possible idea of mythology out there.
Thanks for your post!
Hey no worries!
I can agree that his writing makes you think about it but doesn’t force any of his ideas on to you. It makes you interested but still pushes the underlying meaning. I think I like the twist on the Old Women and Eve with the forbidden fruit. It is something you don’t really think of that way.
Thanks for reading 🙂
Kathryn