Native American Teaching Stories
Discover timeless Native American teaching stories and essential American books, including Christopher Booker’s literary classic, The Seven Basic Plots, in this curated list exploring narrative wisdom, cultural heritage, and the power of storytelling.
Book
The Seven Basic Plots
by Christopher Booker
This volume provides an analysis of stories' plot structures and their psychological meanings, attempting to distill all of storytelling down to a few archetypes. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., the author leads readers through the changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. He analyzes why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.
