Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part A

Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part A

(The King and the Goblin: Illustrated by Perham W. Nahl)

Twenty-Two Goblins, translated by Arthur Ryder

I chose to read from this unit since the stories sounded different to me than other things I have read. I was not disappointed by these readings. I very much liked the continuity between each story, and the style in which that was achieved. The goblin telling other stories from the back of the King was interesting. I felt myself invested in both the first story with the goblin and each new story that was told within that. Many of the stories involved sudden things that shocked me. For example, the sudden suicides that occurred in The Girl, Her Husband and Her Brother. I felt changes in the stories like this came from nowhere, but it makes sense considering these are other stories being told by the goblin. Some of these sudden changes made sense soon after, like the child being thrown into fire in The Three Lovers, though initially I was quite shocked.  I also enjoyed that each story told by the goblin ended in a question directed at the King. The ending question and the King's reasoning made each story seem to communicate an important idea or theme. 

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