Caitlyn's Blog for Myth-Folklore Fall 2018

Week 4 Story: The Boys Who Befriended Frogs NOTE: This story has been added to my portfolio! Please click here for the current version of the story. (Frog: image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images ) This story is a continuation of  The Boys and the Frogs There were frogs who lived in a pond. They had just been scared for their lives due to some boys who had skipped rocks across the pond for fun. The boys finished having their fun skipping stones in the pond. At some point, the boys noticed a few frogs also occupied the same pond where they skipped the stones. They did not think much of it. Surely the frogs would be fine. The boys did not even spare enough attention to the frogs to notice when one of them tried speaking up before the boys. As the boys departed from the pond, the frogs collected themselves from their earlier panic. The oldest frog spoke in a frustrated tone, “If only those boys were more considerate of others around them! We could have died from that!...

Reading Notes: Aesop (Winter) Part B (Mercury, image by Uva79 ) Mercury and the Woodman , illustrations by Milo Winter (1919) The often enjoy the Aesop stories for the idea or theme expressed in each story, and the way it is delivered. That holds true for this story as well, since I very much enjoyed the idea it conveys. The common and simple idea of honesty is shown in this story. I enjoyed the two main characters, Mercury and the Woodman. I feel that the intent of all the characters was communicated well in this story, since it was easy to anticipate what each character was going to do. Stories like these remind me that sometimes a simple idea like honesty can be the basis for something great. The Frog and the Mouse , illustrations by Milo Winter (1919) I feel as though I also need to write notes about stories that surprise me. Most of the stories that surprise me are ones that have something particularly unpleasant in them, and that is true for this story as well....

Reading Notes: Aesop (Winter) Part A (Wolf illustration by Karen Arnold ) The Wolf and the Kid , illustrations by Milo Winter (1919) This story caught my eye because of its inclusion of a wolf character. Though the wolf's portrayal is not exactly positive, wolves are my favorite animals so most instances of their inclusion in stories will have my interest. The story kept my interest with the way the environment and feel of the setting was described. For me, these descriptions really made me feel like I was experiencing the story in person. I also very much enjoyed the idea that this story communicated and solidified with its ending line. This is possibly an idea that I could expand upon in a story of my own.  The Tortoise and the Ducks ,  illustrations   by Milo Winter (1919) This story made me feel bad about chuckling after the tortoise fell from the air mid-sentence. I had a slap-stick feeling image in my head of the tortoise falling, and because of that...