narrate the story shake spear in literature?
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i think you need a hooked on phonics course. what kind of question is that?
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STAR LEGEND\nThe group of stars known to us as the Pleiades gave food for much thought to the aborigines. There are several legends surrounding these heavenly bodies. One is that the Kamilaroys of the North Coast were at enmity with those of the mountains, and a messenger had been sent from group to group with the message-stick calling a council to discuss measures for the protection of the camps. But the messenger had become enamoured of a young woman of one of the groups he had visited, and his affection was returned. However, she proved to be of the same totem, and a marriage was forbidden. Both the young people were very sad, and the man pleaded with the head-man, but all for nothing. He was advised to return to his own people.\n\nThen, like so many other disappointed lovers, he grew resentful, and at last determined to be revenged, and even then, if possible, to secure the lady of his choice.\n\nSo he went away to the enemies of the group, and conspired with them to show them the "pukkan" by which they might steal unseen to the camps of the coast lands. This track belonged to the priest, and led to a sacred spot where the Great Spirit could be communed with by the priest.\n\nNow, the first thing was to drive the people together, or by some subtle means persuade them to congregate on the one place. This was not an easy thing to do. The people were widely separated during the day, for some were in the bush engaged in hunting there or in obtaining those things from it that were needed to fashion all the implements incidental to camp life, others were still in the camp; many were down on the beach either playing there or searching for food, and the whereabouts of still more were always uncertain, for they were roamers.\n\nMany consultations were held; many plans were formulated; many tricks were explained; but at last it was decided that the messenger return to that group and pretend to have given up all thought of marrying the coveted girl.\n\nWhen he was back he sought the confidence of the headman and soon was received without suspicion. Then one day, having prepared and found a chance, he set fire to the bush. He had laid good plans for he knew just where to find the girl. He had seen to it that she was persuaded to go out of the way to get something that she wanted. It was to the pukkan that led to the sacred place. When the fire raged towards them they ran right on to the holy of holies. The only other people who saw them were women who were led by the guardians of young girls. These guardians were watching the girl wanted by the messenger. Now they were all frightened and they all rushed to the clearing. This invasion by women into such a place was against all commandments, and evil was bound to follow.\n\nHeaps of clay left by the priest were seen, and all commenced to smear themselves with it without knowing how to do it properly. They thought it would surely preserve them.\n\nThey were changed into witchetty grubs. They found holes in a moist and rotten log into which, as is the habit of witchetty grubs, they crept. They were shrunken into very small beings compared with the beings they once were.\n\nThe fire came on and on. People ran in all directions and many were destroyed.\n\nThen by the treachery of the messenger the men of the hills came down and they fell upon the rest and the beach group were nearly all killed. Only the denseness of the smoke prevented more of the mountain people from coming down, and those that did come were glad to hasten away to escape it.\n\nOf those that were not killed there was a priest who went to the sacred spot as soon as he could. He sat on the moist and rotten log and mourned for a long time. Then growing hungry he searched for witchetty grubs, for he knew that the log was a favourite place for them. He found first the woman who was the first one to change. He knew that group to be different from those he had seen before and he suspected witchery. He uttered an incanta
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What kind of story do you want?  How short - like 200 words or 10,000 words?  On what subject?  Also what audience is the story for - should I include cultural references, sexual terms, violence?\n\nIf you give me guidlines I will be more than happy to write the story for you, if you are in a rush I could adapt a section of my novel (although my novel is copyrighted material so you would not be able to publish the short story).
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back your story up 100%......if you stick with the story and maybe go into some extra detail....most back down
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Try this site.  It has an audio guide to words.\n\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sword
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you can try fictionpress.net and search for it and then ask the author if you can use it, most of us on there would be delighted someone wants to read or use or work hope that helps
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I don't know where you can get the story, but it may be affliated with Reiki.  A Reiki practitioner once brought me through it.  It's a form of visual imagery.
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Start with a story hour  some willing to sit will kids for an hour and read... have a site with stories animations and music  a learning process, free with no spam
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I don't know, but I'd like to find out, I went on that site, that she recommended, but it didn't look that convincing.\n\n\n\n\nMore than you can shake a stick at\n\nDefinition from Steve Sabram: 1) a military phrase of guerrilla warfare where you do not have much in weapons and you fight with what you get from the land (i.e. sticks). If you have so many people to fight or animals to hunt, you cannot count let alone chase them all. 2) Another I heard of is it is an old shepherding term where you have so many animals to herd, you cannot shake you stick at every individual animal to herd them.\n\nDavid Windmueller: I remember reading in a book that it came from the revolutionary war. There was some scene where Washington was waving a wooden ceremonial sword over the British forces that he had just been victorious over.
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Dear corky,\n\nhave you read the book yet?  What sort of presentation are you expected to do?\n\nYou could always look at critiquing the work.  The premise of the story is how human (in this case children) would behave when they are faced with various circumstances and pressure of nature and need for survival.\n\nYou could also analyse how the kids "organize" themselves - the formation of "society" on the island.\n\nYou could analyze how the kids built their own "religion" or belief system.\n\nYou could analyze how the author portray human nature.  Would these pointers be enough?
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You mean like 'how the porcupine got its quills'? Or how the armadillo got its armor? Model it on a Native American Story.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses\n\nIf you only read one, read that one, as you will learn the greatest amount from it. Practically all major Greco-Roman myths play a part in it and it is wonderfully written.
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well use the book the boy who cried wolf as a reference
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why don't you try www.mythman.com? I have found it very interesting especially since it is humorous and gives a modern twist on old legends(not that the old legends were boring in any way!).
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I would tell a story, a passage in time, an anecdote which changed my life. Give details, describe as though people can actually visualise it. Put adjectives, move around a bit, mimic (OK not everybody can do that but it calms your nerves at the same time).. Make it very lively, don't use long and big, elaborate sentences and go straight to the point.
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try www.sparknotes.com (i'm not really sure if you can, but try it...you have nothing to lose_except for time lolz)
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Decide what your story is going to be about.  Choose a topic about which you know something.  Quite often, an event in your own life as c child can be used as the core basis of your story.  \n\nHow old will your readers be?  This will determine how large your vocabulary is. (If they are very young, important words should be repeated in the telling of your story.)\n\nChoose your characters.  Often one stands for good, and the other one creates problems.  \n\nWhat is the must exciting secion of your story?  Choose a clever title.  You must have colorful pictures. \n\nPicture yourself climbing a mountain.  Imagine what happens as you climb up the mountain.  When you get to the top of the mountain, you are at the most exciting point.  What do you see and feel as you come down the mountain?  Your last paragraph should sum up the story and give the reader "good all over feelin".   You write your story with your points or examples in the story in the same order as if you were climbing the mountain.