I really liked the use of an ogre in the first story of this set, "Motikatika" because I haven't read much involving ogres and it was interesting to read a story involving one. I think it might be fun to write something about ogres but I'd like to do more research on the history of them first since I don't know much about them. I'm not really sure what the main point of this story would be though.
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| (Beware of ogre sign; online source, www.pinterest.com) |
"Jackal and Spring" has a good message behind it: if you don't put forth the work, you can't reap the rewards. I think I could write something very loosely based on that message, which would give me a lot of wiggle room for what to write. I also appreciated the bravery of the tortoise in this one. It made me laugh a little trying to imagine a tortoise attacking a jackal but I like the idea of the unlikely hero.
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| (Jackal by the Spring; online source, www.goodfon.su) |
In "Adventures of a Jackal", I really liked the plot of an unlikely friendship taking place between the jackal and the hedgehog. It'd be fun to write a backstory for these two about how their friendship came to be or maybe just come up with a completely separate story line involving two creatures that become friends against all odds.
I also really love the generation story perspective used for "Adventures of a Jackal", "Adventures of Jackal's Eldest Son", and "Adventure's of Younger Son of Jackal". These were written more like three separate stories, rather than a continued piece but I think I'd enjoy writing a more continual piece. Maybe some sort of tradition taking form within a family, from the grandparents down to the grandchildren or something.
I don't have any very specific ideas from this set so far but I have a couple big picture ideas that I can work with.
Source
"African Stories from Lang's Fairy Books", by Andrew Lang, online source
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