Personal Response Traditional Storytelling

Question: Describe about the Report for Personal Response of Traditional Storytelling. Answer: After reading the book Maybe Tomorrow, I must say that the author Boori Pryor used ancient traditional storytelling in order to express his experiences, views, and ideas in an effective way. Ancient traditional storytelling is considered as a backbone of indigenous culture that is helpful to spread the messages of the author to audience in a proper manner. On the other hand, I come to know that Boori Pryor starts the book with the tragedy of his life. Boori Pryor lost his brother, sister and nephew at the time when he was fourteen years old only. This is an important section of the book for the reason that lots of people face a similar destiny in their life (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). Along with this, after reading the book, I realized that the author demonstrated Aboriginal culture in an effective way. Pryor expressed important facts as well as events related to the culture in a well manner. For case, he talks about the Aboriginal rights, missions, Aboriginal deaths in custody, and so on properly. I also observed that, his voice is very polite, soft, and friendly. Moreover, the writing style of Boori Pryor is very effective, easy, and comprehensible (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). In this book, Boori Pryor tells his own story also but this is not a typical biography of the author. The book describes the career path as well as life story of an Aboriginal in Australia. On the other hand, I also come to know that, there are lots of consequences to this manifestation. It is very fateful that alcoholism was around him at what time he grew up. The author tells that alcoholism as well as suicide was a common factor in the aboriginal culture. It is exceptionally tragic that several aboriginals attempt to adapt to the struggles they confront by consuming extreme alcohol or taking their own life (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). Along with this, I also realized that, most of the part of this book describes his work in schools where he expects to urge understudies to build up a comprehension of and appreciation for Aboriginal individuals and for the area. Boori Pryor trusts that all individuals need and know the importance of their place. Apart from this, after reading the book, I come to know the main purpose of Boori Pryor to write this book. Basically, the purpose of the author is to urge white society to understand truly comprehend where Aboriginal individuals are originating from, and especially the broad ramifications for them of Invasion Day, and to urge Aboriginal individuals to confide in their roots and to perceive the significance of their stories, their social custom, to their individual survival and also to the continued existence of their natives (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). Furthermore, I found that the book is very interesting that gave me bits of knowledge into the world, life and society of Aboriginal Australians. It was astounding to find out that Australia has been occupied by Aboriginals ever since last fifty or sixty thousand years. Moreover, I am truly fond of the way they lived, totally of the land. This is an evolution that flourished for such a large number of years. Also, it was appealing to know the traditions as well as customs of Aboriginal people (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). But, it is disheartening to perceive that within a range of one hundred eighty years, the entire civilization or development of Aboriginals is broken. Along with this, I must say that, after reading this book my sight about the history and the aboriginals has been changed totally. I have such a great amount of appreciation for these individuals and their simple society or culture. A society where young children are taught to respect senior citizens as Boori says that if you would not listen to elders then you will simply die and would not be able to survive in the world. In addition, I believe that it is essential for every one of the general population living in Australia should know this oldest culture and also learn the privileged insights of this awesome land that is called Australia (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). On the other hand, I found that the book inspires the people that happiness is a key of the life. According the author, the people must feel happy about them and also feel happy about the place where they live. Furthermore, the author says that people must know the place where they live and to know that place it is essential to ask the people who lived there for a long duration (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). Moreover, the author expresses that the Aboriginal people are the people who lived there the longest. So, in the words of the authors, the people have the key that can open the way to the fortunes of this land. I believe that the author made a lot of efforts in order to improve the awareness of the people about the Aboriginal culture in an effective and a comprehensive manner. In addition to this, I also realized that there are some weak points of this book. For case, the main failing is that in this book the author described the spiritual side of Aboriginal culture in brief. Moreover, I found that the author jumps from one topic to the other immediately that does not make it comfortable to read. Along with this, the author tells that three of his siblings committed suicide but he did not depict the reason behind the suicide. It is very regrettable that in this book Boori Pryor does not portray the personal story of his siblings. This is also the weak spot of the book (McDonald and Pryor, 2010). But, overall this is an interesting and wonderful book and I heartily appreciate the astonishing efforts of Boori Pryor. I recommend every person to read this book because of it provides loads of insights into the world of Aboriginal culture or society. References McDonald, M. and Pryor, B.M. (2010). Maybe Tomorrow. Australia: Allen Unwin.