Folklore is apparent in many forms which brought me to speculate what folklore exists in my life, and thought it challenging to come up with specific lore that I thought was considered folklore. After reading the first chapter in our assigned text, I was able to grasp onto the idea and notion of what folklore entails. Given the definitions of folklore, I want to share my current, daily relations of folklore with you.
Expressions of folklore are evident in my life more so through interactions with my four and a half year old daughter, Zoe. The folklore identified that is exhibited almost daily is in the form of jokes. My daughter has a knack for telling terrible jokes. She is at the age of joke telling, but does not completely understand the punch line, or where the punch line should be placed within the joke. Zoe would tell a joke, and then ask if it was funny. My husband and I would pretend her jokes were funny, but after the one millionth time of hearing the same not so funny joke, we were determined to teach her how to properly tell a joke. I found an old children’s book that contains jokes that have been told for years, for example the knock, knock joke about the banana and the orange. She still can not quite get the wording down with this particular knock, knock joke but it makes it even more amusing that she just can not get it right. We read the jokes to her from the book which allowed us to remember jokes that we could share with her.
Through the search for easy kid’s jokes, this has provoked my husband to tell jokes. I am not the greatest joke teller; this is possibly where my daughter gets her not so funny joke telling ability. The spark of telling jokes has allowed me and my husband to look for funnier jokes; it is now a competition which is quite hilarious. Our search has also branched over into tongue twisters, which Zoe loves. Old jokes are the best but there are some pretty good new ones. Here is the newest joke from my daughter: What do you call a pig that karate’s? A pork chop.
This blog entry is my response to the Chapter One Reflection Question.
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A fun post. On target.
I really liked this story about your daughter and her joke telling, so I used it as my peer review. If you want to see it, my post is under Anna's Folklife Blog.
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