Drew Myth & Folk

The story lab I am completing is from the advice to writer’s story lab. The specific advice I took from this story lab was " One of the Hardest Things is to start .”   This was an interesting advice that had some really good key points. On of the very interesting advice strings was everyone is always convinced that their next will be your worst, or you will never be able to write as good as your biggest hit again. All writers live in constant terror, but one of a writer’s biggest jobs is making sense of the chaos and making something from it when you can. The only way to do this is sitting down and just start writing. (Image depicts this lab very well I think, Writing )

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 )

The story that I chose to read this week came from Aesop's Fables. This story was called Wolves . The section of the story that really interested me was the Wolf and the Lamb. In this section the Lamb and the wolf have a confrontation where the lamb stands up for himself saying that he did not stir up the wolfs drinking water. The wolf realizes his mistake and then tries to call the lamb out on something from six months before. But the lamb says this was not he that it was the ram, but still sore the wolf tore the lab apart. What I got from this story as that even when someone is in the right, there are nasty people out there that will make it their job ti ruin yours. (Image is of a lion and a lamb, Source: Lion )

The story that I am choosing for today's reading notes comes from Aesop’s Fables: The Gods. The poem that really caught my attention was TheCarter and Hercules . In the story fable teaches the wagon driver a lesson who learns that when gods help them, it helps themselves. This is an interesting take and is really something that the driver found out because now he probably has a totally different view of the Gods. (Image is of Hercules, Source: Hercules )

One day Jeremy a small town college boy decided to go to the amusement park with a couple of his college buddies. They walked into six flags in san Antonio Texas and were taken back by the size of the rides. He and his friends rode a bunch of rides and then braked for lunch. They were sitting down enjoying their meal and Jeremy just had this constant feeling that something interesting would happen that day. They finish lunch and went back to riding some of the biggest roller coasters in the country. While waiting in line Jeremy started talking with a cute girl a few rows over, her name was Erin. They broke apart in the line when Jeremy had just gotten on the ride superman when he looked back down into the line and saw Erin again who was the cutest girl he had ever seen. She was almost glowing in the hot Texas sun, with the wind blowing through her hair. She had the cutest laugh Jeremy had ever heard. At that moment he knew he wanted to talk to her more only one problem, he was al

The Story that drew my attention for today came from the British North America Unit. The stories title is Turtle and Thunder . This story is about a turtle that lived all alone in a lake. One day this turtle kept having something hit his head. So, he went to the woods to find help.   He turned down many of people that offered help but finally came upon a plethora of little turtles. He brought the little turtles back to his lake, and then he went home. Then a big stone fell down and killed all the little turtles. Turtle went to see what happened and he saw a big bird overhead. This bird was the thunder bird, and since this day turtle stayed in the water when there was a storm. The plot that I got from this story was that the turtle needed to not try to fix a problem that mother nature was providing and maybe if he had used some of the other animals help his problem would be no longer. (This is what I imagine the Thunder bird is. Source: Bird )

The story that this reading note will be conducted over the Creationof Light from the British North America. In the story light was only upon the Chiefs teepee, and the animals wanted light as well. The chief continually denied them light. There was a young fox that started chanting khain which means he cries for daylight. And everyone else was chanting light. The chief tried his best but he was getting tired from this and then the animals continually chanted. The light started to steal the sight and the chief accidentally said let there be – light. He meant to say no light. But then the light took the sky. The plot I took from this was if you become tired you may not complete your job to the best of your abilities. (Image is of the Fox Character: Source: Fox )