Motivation for Telling a Story

The aunt’s motivation was to make the children be quiet. The bachelor has the same motivation as the aunt. Beside from entertaining the children, the bachelor was also trying to make a satire to mock at the aunt for her terrible boring story. At the end, the aunt criticized the bachelor’s story for being “improper” because of the non-realistic events happening in his story. The aunt was just trying to make the children silent by telling the story with lack of details. She wanted the children to stop asking questions when they were looking outside the window. She was just trying to get over with it while the bachelor was into the story, making the children get a clear picture in their mind like a little movie running in their brains. The bachelor was trying telling the story with details in order to keep the children quiet. He also wanted the children to enjoy his story and I think that most story tellers might have the same motivation, which is to let readers enjoy the story you are telling. The aunt won’t be considering as a good story teller since her motivation wasn’t to let the readers enjoy her story.