Research Paper on:
Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child, Maryse Conde's Crossing the Mangrove, and Storytelling

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United States, especially cultures which still possess qualities of independence from the mainstream cultures, offer us very intricate looks at people of various ethnic backgrounds. And, in some literature we  are offered storytelling techniques that allow us to rise above the differences and culture and look at the story itself, almost finding ourselves relating to the people within the culture  that is so often far removed from our own. In the following paper we examine this element as seen in Maryse Condes "Crossing the Mangrove" and Tahar Ben Jellouns "The  Sand Child." Crossing the Mangrove From the very beginning of this particular story we know that what we will hear will be a tale of intrigue as Francis  Sancher is found dead and his wife thinks, "For she had known from the very start that this man would break into and out of her life in a brutal  fashion" (Conde 4). This presents us with a mystery that can only be told through a storytelling approach. It is also a mystery that is never really solved, for  what we are given is the various stories or perspectives of the individuals who knew, or thought they knew, Sancher. And, we begin to see that this sort of storytelling  will take place when the news is heard of Sanchers death: "While he strode in haste towards his parents house, the men, forgetting their rum and dice, hurried off to  spread the news to the four corners of the village, and soon people were crowding on their doorsteps to comment on the matter, not in the least surprised, however, for  everybody knew full well that one day Francis Sancher would come to a bad end!" (Conde 5). This is a sort of an approach that builds the foundations of