Change is a wellspring of fear and hope, dreams and disappointment, a source of zeal, mixed feelings, and nostalgia. The lexicon of change is surrounded by emotive connota-tions: birth, rise, fall, development, renaissance, disappearance, and death. Some of these concepts are imbued with feelings in themselves; others may be charged by the context. In political discourse, change is key for creating a sense of a shared purpose. For the sto-ryteller, changes serve as foundational elements in crafting the plot and manipulating readers’reactions. Undoubtedly, historians, too, have found it tempting to employ changes for similar rhetorical purposes, when history is formed into a great narrative.