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| (The North Wind's Hair (Spanish moss); online source, www.commons.wikimedia.org) |
I actually chose this section of reading as a way to try and challenge myself further. I really like to push my own limits and I felt like this set might help me to do that. I would like to write a children's story at some point and I personally find that much harder to do than writing stories for an adult audience. I chose this particular section also because of the use of human-like character descriptions to depict inanimate objects, such as storms, rivers, etc. I won't be using these tactics this week, because I've already got something in mind, but I'll come back to these notes at a later date when I'm ready to try my hand at a children's story.
Most of these stories drew my attention for the same reason. I'd really like to try and write something where the characters are people representing an object or an idea, because I'm really not good at that kind of symbolism and I'd like to expand my writing skills. "How the North Wind Lost His Hair", "The Plant That Grows in Trees", and "Grandmother River's Trick" are good examples of what I'm talking about, along with some others. The north wind is displayed as a person that fights the south wind, mistletoe is portrayed as something having thoughts and feelings, and a river is said to be the grandmother of the little fish that live within her.
"Tejas Legends: When the Storm God Rides", retold by Florence Stratton, online source
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