Thoughts about Comments

I think the best comments are the ones that help with the current story, but could be applied to future stories as well. Those types of comments are the best to help me in the class. My favorite comments that stick with me are the ones on my introduction. I get to know people and we can compare how our lives are similar!

Extra Reading Diary: Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Tying Tiger

This was very interesting to read. The language was a little difficult to follow, but overall was a pretty cool story of a Tiger and his mango tree!Basically the thing I got out of the story was that the tiger was tied to his tree and needed help getting untied... I think.

New Names

So in this story, four friends change their name and if their mother's call them by their old name they must eat their mothers. That's what I got out of the first chapter. I don't really understand the point of this story either. I should have probably picked a different unit to read, but I must say it is interesting to read other culture's stories. It's like trying to solve a puzzle! 

Storytelling Week 5: Adam & Eve

Adam & Eve

            Once long ago when the heavens and the earth were created, the all mighty creator became very lonely. Sure, he had different spirits and angels around but they weren’t the same as someone that looked and acted like him. He decided to create creatures in his image to entertain himself.

            The very smart and intuitive God decided to use different soils around the world when creating his new creatures. This would make all of the offspring of this creature all different but still the same. After this creature named Adam was created, God decided he needed a partner in crime to roam the newly formed earth. When he breathed life into Adam, he commanded the creature split equally into allowing the second creature, Eve, to form. The only rule was to not eat the caramel coated apples from the tree of knowledge. It lasted a good 15 hours before the creatures were overcome by curiosity and devoured the whole tree in minute.

            Weeks later the creators become very sick and started to age rather rapidly. The creatures created by God were not happy. They turned selfish and wanted to be smarter than anything else in the Universe.

            “Hey God, I’m not very happy with this whole situation you so rudely put us in,” Adam said with an aggravated tone.

            “You should be so grateful! You were mere dust of the earth before I made you, and now that you have broken my one and only rule, you shall pay,” God bellowed down to Adam.

            “Yeah well that’s not my problem. I’m done with your stupid rules. I’m doing whatever I want from now on,” Adam said.

            “Honey, please stop acting like a fool. You are seriously embarrassing me,” Eve groaned.

            “I’m acting like the fool? You were the one that that made me eat that stupid fruit and now look what has happened to us,” Adam glared at Eve.

            “Are you serious Adam? Your fat ass couldn’t wait 20 minutes for my chicken to be cooked so you decided to get some fruit from some snake thing and feed us. Maybe if you would help me more around the house and do your part, we wouldn’t be in this position we are in,” Eve screamed back.

“Seriously guys, I gave you one rule and now you’ve screwed everything up. For your punishment you will live a very long life TOGETHER and never separate.  You will be forced to walk the earth for 2 million years before you wither away a slow and painful death. Maybe next you will listen to me instead of being complete idiots,” God said shaking his head. “And further more, you must learn to live in harmony and show your children how to live in harmony or your whole race will be plagued by war and suffering,”

And that's the story of how one terrible couple supposably screwed everything up for the entire human race!

Author's Note:
So I took a spin on the whole Adam & Eve story from Our Father Adam. I basically kept the same plot, but tried to add some modern day dialogue. I didn't want to change it up too much and be offensive.

Bibliography:
Book: Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish
Author: J. E. Hanauer
Year: 1907

Reading Diary B: Folklore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish

Solomon

Solomon and the animals

So this story is about a King named Solomon. The names were a little weird to read. Apparently Solomon could speak the language of the plants. That could be a fun little back story on how he got that power. A plant has told Solomon that all of his work would be destroyed. I really didn't understand this story all that much. I won't be choosing this story to rewrite.  

Reading Diary A: Folklore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish

Folklore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish

Islamic Art: Adam and Eve

Our Father Adam

I chose this unit because it is tied to all three monotheistic religions. I love comparing and contrasting all three. People fight and die over religion, but I find it interesting that all three have way more in common than they would like to admit. I like how this version says that Adam was made with different soils from around the world which created different "colours" of men and women around the world. I thought it was different that Adam and Eve were one body and then Eve decided to be her own woman. Overall I like this story. It was a little different than what I have read in the past but still had the same plot.

Noah

This story is basically the same as the story in the bible that I grew up reading. This version also included a giant like the version I read last week. It was a little more sinister than the version I would read when I was little.