Reading Notes: The Singing Bone

(skull and crossbone: Pixabay)

In this story, I thought it was sad how the older brother killed his younger brother just so he could marry the King’s daughter. It shows us how greed can turn a person around and make them evil. I like the singing bone in this story. I could this story in the shepard’s point of view.  Since he was the one that found the bone, I can rewrite his experience and how he finally learned the story behind the singing bone. There can be many emotions expressed by this. It is sad to be the innocent one that gets killed or have your own brother turn their back on you.

Bibliography: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013). Web source

Reading Notes: Rapunzel

In this story, they talk about Rapunzel's background and the reason she was taken away from her parents. It then continues to just talk about what happens to Rapunzel. I could write a story that included her background and as she was taken away, her parents would find a way to save her. I want to keep her parents in the story. Her parents then tell the village that if some one can save her they would be able to marry her. Every one was afraid of the witch that took her because she was so powerful that no one tried. One prince came along and was able to save her. They married and Rapunzel was reunited with her parents again. They both apologized for the selfish act they did. The rampion was not worth their daughters life. 

(Rapunzel tower: Wikimedia Commons)

Bibliography: Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes, with illustrations by R. Anning Bell (1912). Web source