Post # 10

The TED Talk :Stories, Repositories and Folklore: Aghan Odero Agan was very interesting. Hard to understand the first few 

times but you start to hear what he is trying to say.  He relates to his home country and how we got to the place he is right now and how his traditions has shaped the man he has become today.  He connects the the audience, which makes them more comfortable I guess.   The "land" is what keeps the people alive, and if the land fails to give back then people die and the people fail.  But  the ancestors do not give up, they kept trying.  I did not get how this relates to folklores besides the fishing/net story.  To be honest this is just one big story where a man never gave up on living life.  A folklore something that represents the people. I still couldnt understand him after a while. Im sorry, well to me this ted talk, he explains his own cultural folktale and explains how important it relates to him. How the folktale has a deeper meaning to it.  These folktales might be the reason why we live by and follow certain rules and etc.

Post #9

This version of the sandman is very interesting.  It was much longer and unexpected.  the graphic details are great! The color sets the mood of the scenes, but some of these drawings are very scary.  If I'm not mistaken there are stories inside of this story of the Sandman, this is the origin story of how he has came the way he is? There is so much going on in just a few pages that I'm honestly confused. I usually like graphic novels but i don't really fancy this graphic novel.  There's a lot of back and forth, into different stories.  Also I feel like this story is different, but I never really looked into the original Sandman stories, I just remember watching the story in the Spiderman, that sandman story is not the same, completely difference actually.  So coming from a person with no knowledge of this story, I'm lost.