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 …showed first 75 words of 345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 345 total…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.