I
feel that my storytelling writing this week based after The Fairy Frog from the
Jewish Fairy Tales unit was one of my best. I really enjoyed writing this story
because I liked the central message of the Jewish fairytale I decided to
retell. The moral was “if you obey the wishes of the dying you will be
rewarded,” and I was able to easily expand on this and make a new story out of
it with the two kings. As heir to the throne, the oldest son gives up his
rightful position as King in order to obey his father’s wishes. He is then
rewarded and made King of a new land. I think it also shows that if you are
dutiful and follow without doubt you will be rewarded. As a Christian, I
believe this correlates to our relationship with God. If we serve him as he
wishes and follow his way, we will be rewarded with eternal life in
heaven.
I also think Savannah did a great job on her storytelling
post this week. She took the story of Cupid and Psyche and made it into a poem
called The Girl Who Couldn’t Die. She expanded on the way that Psyche tries to
kill herself by adding different scenarios. In the story Psyche only tries to
commit suicide by jumping from the tops of cliffs into rivers. I like how Savannah
expanded the story to include different scenarios. It added more interest to
the story rather than reading the same scenario over and over again. The story
held my attention the entire time and I was wanting to speed through to see if
she lived, died, and if she found love. I also loved the rhyming of course. The
ending was great and I appreciate the irony. After she decides she does not
want to die, she tragically gets struck by lightening and dies anyways. It
reminds me of the book My Sister’s Keeper where she sues her parents to have
rights to her own body and not donate any more organs to her younger sister
with cancer. Her sister wants to die and no longer wants her sister to donate
her organs. She wins the case and the right to her own body and no longer has
to donate her body parts to her sister under her parents order. However, on the
way to the hospital she dies in a car crash and her sister gets her organs
anyways.
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