Drew Myth & Folk

The story I read this week came from the Europe Unit: Russian Folktales section. The specific story that popped out to be was The DeadMother . This was a very interesting story that did a great job at grabbing the reader’s attention throughout and until the end of the story. The story began with a child being born and shortly after the mother died. The father new the child needed a mother figure in its life so hired an old woman. The would only cry during the day and wouldn’t take food, but then would sleep sound at night. The old woman was confused why this could be. So the Woman stayed up one night to figure it out, and what she found out finally after many people helped her catch this was the dead mother was knelt by the child’s bed and was feeding it. But then when the onlookers turned the light on the dead mother walked out of the room and when they went to the child, they saw it was dead as well. Really the only thing I could gather from this story as an external meaning as tha

The section that drew my attention for this weeks reading notes was the Europe Unit: Fables of La Fontaine. The particular story from this was The frog who wished to be as big as the Ox . This was a very interesting poem that really had a deep meaning. In the poem the frog saw the ox and asked the sister if he stretched if he was as big as the ox. The sister said no, so he stretched more and then asked again. She said now so he stretched and puffed again, but then cracked beneath the strain and burst and then flew into little bits. The deeper meaning I got from this was never try to be something that you are not, because trying to be something other than who you are will only hurt you in the end. (This image depicts the Fable. Source: Frog and the Ox )

One day in sunny California there was a seagull named Franklin. Franklin was a newcomer to the sea. He had grownup on a lake his entire life and had never seen a wave in his life. He was fascinated by these waves. He spent his first week at the beach chasing the waves in and out. He learned from the older seagulls one of the best methods for collecting food is gathering the muscles that are standing as the water rushes back to the oceans line. Franklin worked at this practice but just kept getting annoyed at the thing he used to think was so fascinating. He would rush towards the freshly turned up muscles and then get pushed away by the next wave that was rushing in all too fast. So Franklin asked the ocean why he had to always be pushing waves into the beach. The ocean responded abruptly and asked Franklin why he should deprive the whole world from one of the greatest blessings in nature just to gratify one single seagull. The ocean went into a long lecture on why waves were one

The story I chose for this reading notes came from Aesop’s Fables: Yet More Birds Section. The story that really drew my attention from this section was The Owl and the Sun . In this section there was an owl that was looking at the sun. While it was looking at the sun, it asked the sun why it had to be so bright and had to stare right at the owl at that rate. The sun replied asking if it thought it was reasonable the whole world should be deprived of the greatest blessing in nature, to gratify the owl. And the plot that I acquired from this story was that envy and detraction will have some onlookers that say against it. Meaning that some peoples wants will have onlookers disapproval of it. (Image is of an owl, Source: Owl )

The story I chose for this week reading notes came from the Aesop’s Fables: More Asses in the British Celtic unit. There was a specific story that drew my attention from this section, and it was The Ass’s Wish . In this specific story there was an Ass that was always dreaming. He was always dreaming of things that were better that were coming, such as in winter he was dreaming of warmer weather and fresh grass. And then in sprig he was dreaming of summer, but after summer he dreamed of fall because of all of the work in the summer. But then there was a lot of work in the fall so then he is back to winter, where he started dreaming of the future in the first place. One of the quotes at the end of the story really explained the story well. This quote said, “An unsettled mind can never be at rest.” I believe this is the main theme or plot for this story, that a mind that is always thinking of what would be better will never be content and happy. (Image is of two Ass's doing wor

For week 12 I decided on completing a story lab. For this I decided to read C.S. Lewis's statement of Practice, Practice, Practice . In this article the author suggests a technique to better the readers writing skills. They suggest writing continually as well as you can. Whether it is a fun write or a meaningful write. That by doing this the writer becomes so much further on. I really found this interesting and meaningful because I struggle with writing and this is a possible activity that could improve my writing skills. This is a technique that I believe can help the majority of writes with sentence structure all the way to idea generation. (Image is of creativity in progress, Source: Pencil )