They say life imitates art. But is that fully true when it comes to literature. Are the folktales that we tell our young children completely made up or do the moral stories and characters draw on real life experiences. Or do we as a culture change these stories and draw on stories around event in which we are privy to experiencing. I think is relative to when you grow up and what life you experience. But either way there are direct correlations between life and the Narrative. Look at the story of Barack Obama. Obama is our hero. He comes from a small poor broken household with dreams of one day being important maybe president. The villain in this story racism and ignorance of issues that sadly is still prevalent in the United States today in the American people. You can also say at one point John McCain and the republicans are villians but they are later in Obama's life story. The princess in this story is us the American people. Our hero starts on his journey in the Illinois legislature where he rises above the rest to battle the predigious against him. Then after a few years he wants to try and ascend to the highest office in the land the presidency. For months he battles all of his worth opponents in his own party but finally arrives to his highest battle between him and John McCain. After months of fierce battle and wins and loses on each side, Obama through his strength over came all obstacles, wins the love of the American people and with the marriage of the people and himself he rises to the thrown of the President. The morale of our story is through perseverance you can achieve anything. If that doesn’t sound like I storybook ending I don’t know what is.
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