For this week’s reading notes I chose to do a story from the
Italian Popular Tales unit. I liked the section from this story The Cat and the
Mouse. To me, I felt like this story was a little repetitive but I loved the
idea. This story is about a cat who is wanting to get married and is waiting
for each animal to come by and swoon her. She does not care for any animal,
except a mouse that stops to sing for her. Eventually the mouse dies in the cat’s
food she is preparing, and gets very sad. Everything in the house becomes sad
with the cat, which causes outside people/things to get sad as well. So I would
change the story by having the cat not trying to get married, but trying to
live her life. Every animal would want this cat to be their own wife and she
would always refuse. One day a tiny little mouse would approach her, but little
did he know that the cat was absolutely terrified of mice. So, she would scream
and run around the house trying to avoid this little mouse, while all along he
would just be trying to wed her. On the other hand, she would have been wanting
to get married for quite some time and would never find the right guy, until
the mouse. The mouse would never give up on trying to become her husband, so
she eventually learned to live with a mouse in the house. The two would
eventually fall in love and live happily ever after, even though her fear of
mice would never fully be gone.
Cat and Mouse
Bibliography:
This story is part of the Italian Popular Tales unit. Story source: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885).
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