The Ruined Cottage Essay, Research Paper

The audience of Armytage is the young narrator, and the audience of the Ancient Mariner is the wedding guest. The storytellers of “The Ruined Cottage” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” are very effective in capturing their audience with their stories. There are two examples to show how effective these storytellers are. The storytellers are so effective at telling their stories that they make their audience’s escape from reality.

The first example of a storyteller telling an effective story is in “The Ruined Cottage.” The young narrator is at his house and this is where he finds his old friend Armytage. Armytage sees how unpleasant the young narrator is and tells him that he does not see the same things that he, Armytage sees. Armytage tells him the story behind this old abandoned house. While Armytage tells his story to the young narrator the young narrator forgets how unpleasant he was at the abandoned house. Armytage tells his story so well that the young narrator leaves with a new knowledge.

The second example of a storyteller telling an effective story is in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The Ancient Mariner mesmerizes on e of three wedding guests. The mariner tells his story about a young mariner that shot an Albatross and got into trouble for shooting it. The moral of the mariner’s story is to love all things that God has created. The wedding guest leaves the mariner’s story a sad but wiser man.

In both of these examples we get a look at the effectiveness of both storytellers telling a story. Armytage tells the young narrator a story and the young narrator learns from his story that out of death a new life will spring. It takes an effective storyteller to have the audience leave with something. The Ancient Mariner tells the wedding guest a story and the wedding guest leaves his story a sad but wiser man. Both storytellers have told effective stories to their audiences. Each of the two audiences have gone away with a new profound knowledge of life.