Rhetorical Tools

     Today in class we discussed Mary Zambreno's article "Why Do Some Stories Keep Returning?". This introduced me to some Rhetorical Tools. The tools she mentioned in the article were Piece meal, Window of Opportunity, Open-endedness, and Mutability or Plasticity.  Although I have read a few stories in my time and have seen these terms used over and over I really never knew what they were called. So today we will talk about these terms and flesh them out a little bit to make them understandable to you the reader of my blog.
      Mutability (or Plasticity) is the ways in which the material can be reshaped for new audiences. Thank goodness this happens because I don't think I would like to read some of these older versions  written in very old english of King Arthur,  "yet som men say in many partys of Inglonde that Kynge Arthure ys nat ded" -Malory.  Really?  When I read that I feel like I am practicing "Hooked on Phonics".  But mainly mutability is how it can be related to todays people updated enough to make the readers feel the story and relate.  Peace meal is taking bits and pieces of information gathered and putting them together with a thread  to make  a story.  Much like Joseph's coat of many colors.  All sorts of of fragmented bits of fabric to create the coat.  Now widows of opportunity are the part in the story that has been left out normally because it's not related directly to the charecter but you may wonder "what about so and so" that is a window of opportunity to tell another story.  Maybe it's been written about so and so maybe not, maybe you will write about him.  Finally we have the open endedness of a story.  Sure Luke killed his father Darth Vader and we saw the head Sith drop down to his supposed demise. But didn't we see Luke fall to his supposed demise much the same way and was saved.  There are always two Sith, a master and a pupil, so who is to say the Jedi have nothing else to worry about.  The story can continue and although I am not sure I think there are other stories after Darth Vader's death allready written.  I hope I have helped explain these terms to others that haven't taken this course and are following my pittiful blog.