Reading Notes: Turkish Fairy Tales, Part B
I think I could turn the first story into something really interesting. I would bring the story to modern times. My protagonist would go to a psychic for fun with friends one night to receive the chilling fortune that she will marry a dead man. This would obviously disturb her, but she'd try to shake off the bad feeling. A bit later, she'd come across a car crash. She'd help one driver who temporarily stopped breathing. Later, another woman would claim to be his rescuer.
For the next story, I would twist it a bit if I rewrote it. Women are often portrayed as nagging and selfish. Maybe the wife was a good woman, and her husband abandoned her for no good reason. My story would be of a woman whose husband leaves her and, with the help of his friend, seduces another woman who is younger and more attractive. In my story, the wife really would go after the (ex)husband and the friend. After all, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Honestly, the third story didn't inspire me. It was fun and interesting, but I had no ideas on how to rewrite it. I enjoyed the miracles/coincidences which saved the man. He must have been quite clever to pull off each of the feats.
For the next story, I thought it was wrong of the apprentice to kill his teacher. The student was the one who had intended to steal his ideas. I would rewrite it, with the student being punished after showing to be difficult for his mother and trying to steal ideas from his teacher. I think a bit of karma would be called for. Maybe he would be stuck as the bath house forever.
The next story surprised me a bit. I figured this stork would be a trickster. Why would he sit and wait patiently for the girl to return with the barley when he has a perfectly good liver in his beak right now? I would rewrite it to have the girl return to the stork to find he had already eaten the liver.
I was reminded very much of an infant throwing a tantrum by the next section. The protagonist is even bald. I would rewrite this as a story of a talking baby. He would see a toy in a store and demand that his mother get it for him. Others would go through great struggles before he finally got his way.
I didn't really understand what was going on in the last section. I enjoyed the consistent pattern of threes in the writing, but it did not speak to me. I think I'll likely work with the first story from part b.
Bibliography: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, link to the reading online.
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For the next story, I would twist it a bit if I rewrote it. Women are often portrayed as nagging and selfish. Maybe the wife was a good woman, and her husband abandoned her for no good reason. My story would be of a woman whose husband leaves her and, with the help of his friend, seduces another woman who is younger and more attractive. In my story, the wife really would go after the (ex)husband and the friend. After all, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Honestly, the third story didn't inspire me. It was fun and interesting, but I had no ideas on how to rewrite it. I enjoyed the miracles/coincidences which saved the man. He must have been quite clever to pull off each of the feats.
For the next story, I thought it was wrong of the apprentice to kill his teacher. The student was the one who had intended to steal his ideas. I would rewrite it, with the student being punished after showing to be difficult for his mother and trying to steal ideas from his teacher. I think a bit of karma would be called for. Maybe he would be stuck as the bath house forever.
The next story surprised me a bit. I figured this stork would be a trickster. Why would he sit and wait patiently for the girl to return with the barley when he has a perfectly good liver in his beak right now? I would rewrite it to have the girl return to the stork to find he had already eaten the liver.
I was reminded very much of an infant throwing a tantrum by the next section. The protagonist is even bald. I would rewrite this as a story of a talking baby. He would see a toy in a store and demand that his mother get it for him. Others would go through great struggles before he finally got his way.
I didn't really understand what was going on in the last section. I enjoyed the consistent pattern of threes in the writing, but it did not speak to me. I think I'll likely work with the first story from part b.
Bibliography: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, link to the reading online.
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