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 )