The Story Of Jack And The Bean Stalk

As a child I remember being read and told a hundreds of stories. There is this one story that stands out to me the most. It is a story that my nana and papa would always tell me to try and get me to learn about patience. Although, as a kid I did not think of it as a learning opportunity, but more as story time at nana’s and papa’s house. Now I look back at all of the stories that they told me I really appreciate the story of the “Jack and the Bean Stalk.”
In the story Jack is just a young boy who is staying with his mother, who is a widow, together with their milk cow who happens to be their only source of livelihood. A time comes when the milk cow no longer gives milk and thus Jack’s mother instructs him to take their milk cow to traders and sell her. On his way to the market, Jack meets with an old man, who requests Jack to exchange his cow with some magic beans. Jack accepts this offer and thus makes the trade. When Jack arrives home later without any money, his mother becomes very furious and angrily throws the magic beans out of the window on the ground and immediately sends Jack to bed.
Over the night, a very big beanstalk grows on their garden and Jack’s curiosity makes him climb the beanstalk, which leads him to a certain land very high in the sky. Up on the sky, Jack encounters a very big castle that is a home of a certain giant. Jack, being hungry he requests for food on the door of the castle, and surprisingly the giant’s kind wife takes him in. Before Jack is done with his food, the giant soon returns and senses that there is a human who is inside, thus;
Fee-fi-fo-fum!
I smell the food of an Englishman,
Be he alive, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread (Tony, 1996).
Luckily the kind giant’s wife hides ...

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...hat are authentic about how the way knowledge ought to be applied. Thus stories usually provide a tool for transferring knowledge in a context that is social (Clella, 2013).
Human knowledge is mostly based on narratives and brain of human beings is made up of cognitive machinery, which aids in understanding, remembering and telling stories. Human are storytelling beings that lead storied lives both socially and individually. This therefore means that stories reflect human thoughts since humans tend to think in narrative structures and often remember most facts that are in story form. Storytelling is able to supplement analytical thinking and since storytelling needs visual and auditory senses from listeners, a person is able to organize his/her mental representation of the story, be able to recognize language structure and also express their thoughts (Clella, 2013).