Reading Notes: The Giant Dog

In this story, the giant dog is very protective and will simply attack strangers. At the end, the story is told to explain the reasoning why the inland-dwellers are afraid of dogs. I really like the details in this story. They are very descriptive. I like how the giant dog pretended to be scared but suddenly he attacked all three of the dogs at once. 

I can rewrite this story and give the giant dog a chance to tell us why he attacked all of these people.  It's always interesting to rewrite a story in a different character's perspective. Maybe he was just trying to protect this owner. He was extremely smart and noticed that the people wanted to kill him. They were all planning to kill the owner because they were jealous of him. Dogs are usually protective and will do anything to keep their owners safe so we can also incorporate that into the story.

(Soldier and dog: Pixabay)

Bibliography: Eskimo Folk-tales by Knud Rasmussen. Web source.