Forrest begins telling his story while waiting for a bus because the woman sitting next to him asks about his life. Forrest then proceeds to recount his life story, highlighting various significant events and relationships that have shaped his life.
The framing scenes with the adult Forrest telling his story take place in 1981. The scenes with Forrest's childhood take place in the 1950s.
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Just pretend you're telling the story to your friends. Third person means that you use one of the normal ways of telling things: you say "he did" or "she said" instead of saying "I did."
In song
Bella and Edward prepare for their upcoming wedding. Bella flashes back on telling Charlie and Rene.
H. Edward Forrest has written: 'The story of Stokesay Castle'
the person telling the story is a girl named jessie...
The author is telling the story in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The use of story telling in teaching and learning
To find more information about story telling, you could go to professional story telling classes, or you can make up/read more stories to tell to people, and you will become better at story telling as time goes on.
I believe that the flashback begins right at the beginning of the story because it speaks from the moments before the grandmothers deaths. It's like the author is telling the story from the moments leading up to the grandmother's death.
Probably not, since story-telling is as old as the ability to communicate itself.