Show-and-Tell: Eating the Pie in One Sitting
Time for the fourth in a series on various elements of crafting engaging stories by way of looking at popular story-songs …
Grab a cup of joe or what you like to sip on, because it’s nice to have something to drink with a BIG helping of dessert. This time around, we have “American Pie,” a song written and performed by Don McLean. Maybe you’ve heard the old story-writing adage of “Show, don’t tell.” Sometimes, of course, you need to just point-blank tell and not beat around the bush when weaving a yarn. So why is showing always put forth as a more engaging way to share a story? To answer that, here’s a song that is chock-full of all sorts of symbolic phrases that show rather than tell, like a pie stuffed with every kind of berry you can think of:
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