ISSUE110 奋斗小组作业三十一 处女作 谁说发作文会没有人拍？！

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"When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers."
The speaker asserts that all historians are storytellers. When it comes to the study of history ,we “ construct “ history rather than truly know it .From my standpoint of view .I totally agree that when we tell the history ,we need to illustrate and present  it clearly and coherently., adding our own styles ,opinions or even imaginations. Whereas, we are not inclined to be storytellers .There are some objective implications in the speakers statement , and I will substantiate my opinion below.
First of all ,I am, indeed ,likely to be a storyteller in some situations related to history. There are not so much first-hand evidence to represent the history and we need to make use of our creativeness. Imagine that I were a playwright who is eager to write a masterpiece of Marie  Antoinette ,it would be tough for me to write vivid plots just by the limited evidence from the past .My readers are more interested in the queen’s soulful experiences and love stories ,which has been mentioned little in the history evidence. Then I need to be a storyteller , for the purpose is to tell a story rather than present the history .
However  ,I can not help to cast some doubt on the implications from title statement. The objectives of historians are always to know more about the past ,exploring more valid and convincing evidence. However ,the speaker take the history exploration for a “creative enterprise” ,neglecting the essentials of “objective pursuit”. Can history be built on the basis more of creativeness than of objective evidence .The answer is definitely “No” .The history is not created , but existed. Nothing can be told or conclude without the basic data from our past generations.
Last but not least, no one is permitted to feign the history ,but every one has the right to recognize it.A qualified historian is always trying to uncover the mystic history to the public ,so honesty and truth are the best policies . We need real data and direct evidence while listening the “storytellers”. For example ,No one will believe an ordinary cave to be a place once settled by our ancestors  if  no fossil unearthed .In a word ,Without objective discoveries and laboratories’ researches , no one will believed the so-called history even though there is a perfect “story-teller”.
In conclusion , I am in favor that in various forms of presenting the history .,”storytellers” are needed .At the same time ,I do take the opposite opinion to present history on the purpose of construction, ”creation”, or such others ,especially as a historian. The study of history is ,and always be ,a objective pursuit.


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