The one story

I believe that there are original ideas for stories, but people tend to not look for the uniqueness of a story and try only to find something relatable within the text. The example Robert brought up of Tolkien where he created intricate details to his story make it an original thought, but the idea of the strangers traveling together on some great quest isn’t. The reason people look into the details and symbols of texts is because it helps us as the readers process the problem the hero will face in the story and relate them to others tales and their endings. The details in the story make the story original but I think that if we look at the broader picture that the story creates no really book has an original thought. Most stories can be simplified into two categories: The stranger comes to town, and the other being the journey. Even then it is the exact same story simply told from another perspective. These points of view are exclusive and in my opinion don’t really conflict because ideas are both original and unoriginal because with each new work of literature the author brings their own emotions and perspective to the idea being told. The fact that they used another author’s idea does not take away from the fact that their idea or opinion of an idea was actually theirs. The story of Alice and Wonderland is a quest to me and is a combination of the stranger being Alice coming to Wonderland and the adventure they go on. The idea isn’t original the perspective that Lewis Carroll and the characters he created was. Their perspectives on their adventure and how the characters impacted the audience and each other makes the idea original.