Postmodernism is an interesting book filled with many fascinating ideas about the world. In the book contain ideas about power and knowledge. This book can assist people in finding their way through this complex world. For this blog however, I will talk about how different stories can manipulate or control how a person lives his/ her life. For example, narratives are stories that “legitimize the society in which they are told”. It can “define what has the right to be said and done by the culture” (24-25). If a person hears a legend, he/ she has the right to go and spread the legend to other people. Myths are types of narratives that are told so that a group of people can understand their lifestyles, their heritage, or just why they do what they do. These stories are powerful because they have been chosen by important people and they are shared to others that way their cultures can live how they want to live. Other myths are called “grand narratives” and they are “big stories that claim to be able to account for, explain, and subordinate all lesser, little, local narratives” (29). This type of myth could seem a bit unbelievable. People, who believe certain myths and then they hear grand narratives that contradict or have changed the myths, become confused in what they thought was true and accurate. Because of grand narratives, minority discourse can be marginalized. This is because all the little stories are being combined into one big narrative, making the smaller or “minority” stories disappear. If people begin to believe the larger myths, they might forget about the little myths that may be more important to their culture or personality. By loosing sight of how people first viewed the world through myths, these stories will soon become meaningless and completely forgotten.