Reading Notes: Persian Tales Part A

This week I chose to do my story notes over Persian Tales. Because my boyfriend's family is Persian, I thought it would be interesting to read more into some of their stories! I read most of the story and loved the part of The Goat and the Wolf. This part of the story was very cool to me because it showed how the mother goat's motherly instincts set in once her children had gone missing. I think instead of the wolf overhearing the mother warn her kids about not letting a stranger in, the wolf would just be wandering by at the wrong time. The wolf could be a good guy and end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Instead of the wolf breaking in and kidnapping the kids, he would try and sell them cookies for a fundraiser for his own child. In the story, only one of the baby goats was able to escape and hide when the wolf kidnapped the others, so I would change it to where all of the kids followed the wolf. While the wolf tried to sell them cookies, the kids would end up following the wolf home to try and buy more cookies because the wolf did not bring enough to their home. When the mother gets back home, she will notice her kids are missing and start an adventure to find them. When she gets to the Wolf's house, she will become extremely worried and try to break into the Wolf's house to fight him to get her kids back. Little will she know that the kids will be out in the wolf's backyard playing with his child and eating cookies! So when the wolf answers and tries to explain where her kids are, she won't believe him and become angry anyways. So while the mother goat tries to get her children back, who are not in any harm, she does everything in her power to get inside the wolf's house while he does everything he can to make sure his home is not destroyed by an overprotective mother.

Wolf and Goat

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Story source: Persian Tales: The Wolf and the Goat, translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919). Link to Story