In Lisel Mueller’s work “Why We Tell Stories,” she explains the value of sharing stories. She reveals in her poem, “because we were always defeated, we invented impossible riddles that only we can solve.” Mueller explains how tales were conjured up in favor of the narrator; it was an escape from reality, where you are able to jump into the world where you were the hero.
Thomas Builds-the-Fire, protagonist in the film “Smoke Signals,” created based on a story told by Sherman Alexie, is an imaginative storyteller. He spends the entire movie pasionately sharing his stories across the states as he helps his childhood friend, Victor Joseph, travel to Arizona to see his father. As an eccentric, emotional storyteller, he creates a stories that allows