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[–]Seyden 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link
The idea or writing anecdotal stuff is to summarize an idea. You want to make something more clear to the person who will engrave it into their mind. The story is supposed to show a point and only the very point.
Lets look at the Scorpion+Frog anecdote Skip it if you know that one One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river. The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"
"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.
"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"
"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.
"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."
Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.
Back to topic: This story is valueable because it clearly demonstrates a point alligned within the ways one would think. There is the clear better knowledge of nature which one choses to act against because one follows a pattern of logical thinking. Nature however doesn't care about YOUR logic, it will always uses its own. Therefore two idiots trying to act on their own logic, be above nature die. Your story is "Someone is stubborn, someone is skeptic. Skeptic guy adapts to a situation, stubborn guy does not and dies." It is a fair point... but then you inflate it with bullshit. Who cares about some shit familiy? Why this dumbass tears like you are trying to actually write a shitty sob story? Why the ego shit of pretending to be all that smart about it? "Muh fucks his life like an aaalpha"? So much shitty aids in the story which destroys any value a anecdote may would have had.
[–]Senior EndorsedMattyAnon0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Moral of the story: monkeys need to learn to use the GPS function of their smartphones
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