Drew Myth & Folk

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...