Reading Notes: Persian Tales Part B

For the second part of my reading I chose to do another chapter about a wolf so I could combine the two! This story starts out with a wedding, and by the end, the bride has turned into a wolf out of nowhere and tore her husband apart. Then she immediately turns back into her normal self without any idea how it happened or what exactly happened. So to change the story I would have it connect back to my part A of the story. Instead of a girl marrying a man, it would be the goat and the wolf from the beginning of my story. After the wolf had protected his house and managed to calm down the goat, they would have spoken about the miscommunication and the mother goat decided to let the kids have a play date with the wolf’s child. After a few play dates, they would begin going on dates without the children and decide that they have been falling in love! So in a twist of fate, the goat and wolf would fall in love and get married. Once getting married, no one would kill the other (like in the original), but they would live happily ever after like any other cheesy love story. The baby goats would then see the baby wolf as their new sibling and they would become best friends. After spending a couple years together, they would eventually realize that they could not keep up with rebuilding a house every time the wolf would huff, puff, and sneeze their house down. So they would learn what materials to build their house out of, and make sure it didn’t happen to any other unlucky people who built a house next to theirs.

Wolf Sneezing

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This story is part of the Persian Tales unit. Story source: Persian Tales: The Story of the Wolf-Bride , translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919).