Saturday, February 20, 2016

Week 6 Reading Diary: Brer Rabbit Tales

This week I read the Brer Rabbit Unit from Joel Chandler Harris's series of books of Brer Rabbit tales. Before I read these stories, I had heard of Brer Rabbit, but my main exposure to the stories was from riding Splash Mountain about a million times at Disney World.

I really liked these stories because I always think trickery is fun to read about! I also liked getting to read up on the history of these stories on Wikipedia. The fact that all of the characters in these stories are animals makes me wonder if there is a way to retell the stories using human characters. Since the whole thing centers around Brer Fox eating Brer Rabbit that might be kind of difficult! 

Since so many of the stories are just short little details of the overall story or other random extra details, it could be fun to write a storytelling post like it is just another chapter in the story! It would also be fun to write in the same style, but I think that might be a bit too much of a challenge.

Usually my favorite parts of movies are the happy parts at the beginning, and I always wish I could just cut out the sad part before it gets happy in the end. However, in Splash Mountain, the sad part before it gets happy is the 50 foot drop, which is the best part of the ride! So maybe in my storytelling post this week I'll give the story a really good sad part before it gets happy in honor of Disney World and Brer Rabbit!



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