Week 3: Styles Brainstorming

Topic: My storybook will be about ghosts and ghouls. I will take one ghost from four different cultures to make this storybook possible. One story I want to include is The Ghost-Brahman which is an Indian story and another one I want to include is The Man and the Ghost which is a Tibetan story. I believe finding a couple more ghost stories to include in my storybook will be easy as there are a lot of ghost stories available.

This is a picture of a ghost. Taken by Gallowglass. Web Source: Wikipedia

Bibliography

1. The Ghost-Brahman, Folk-Tales of Bengal by Rev. Lal Behari Day (1912)

2. The Man and the Ghost, Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton (1925)

Time Travel: I think this could be a very unique style of telling my stories. I could set it up as a time traveler going back to try and visit each of the four ghosts that the stories are about.  I could even combine this style with another style. Maybe a ghost is traveling back in time or it is part of a quest. I think this one could be very fun and is definitely one of my top choices right now.

Someone tells the stories (ghost or ghost hunter): I could have a ghost telling the stories of some of the most famous ghosts in history. This could be a really cool method I think. I really like the way it would set up the stories by having an actual ghost tell the stories.. I could also have a ghost hunter tell stories of past ghosts he has ran into or witnessed. He would tell about times where he found the ghost he was looking for, and other times when he may have failed finding the ghost he was looking for.

Quests, Mysteries, and Adventures: I could tell my stories as a quest. Maybe someone is attempting to find these four ghosts that have haunted people for centuries. They start off traveling to where all of the ghosts are supposed to be. This could be a great way to tell all of the stories and string them all together.

Inanimate Object as Narrator: I really like this style. I have always wondered what it would be like to be an inanimate object in the room. It might be a little harder to figure out what object could be involved in all four ghost stories. If I can figure out what the right object would be, this might be my favorite option. It is very unique and has a lot of possibilities.