Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Part B

For the second part of this week’s storytelling units, I chose to do a section from the Alaskan Legends unit called The Wolves and the Deer. I wanted to do something animal oriented since my Part A had to do with animals. This is pretty much a story originated from why Deer are afraid of Wolves, but I would change it to fit my original story post. Throughout this story, both of the animals are laughing to see the size of each other teeth, and in the ends shows how the Wolves eat the Deer and why they are afraid of Wolves. But instead of making it violent, I would have the animals laughing at the man from Part A who could not see them. The only animals who could see them were the ones that were trying to. Unlike the man, the Raven wanted to see each animal, friend, and food he provided for the man because he was doing a nice deed. So while the animals could see the man and could see the Raven, they could not be seen by anyone who did not want to see the animals formed from clay. The end of the story would lead to the man being so alone, and hungry that he would finally try his best to see what the Raven had created. By the time he would be starving, he could see food. By the time he needed a companion, he would see a girl. So by the time he wanted wild life around, he would see each animal the Raven had created. The man would feel so foolish to belittle the Raven and to not have seen each of these items before, that he would spend the rest of his life trying to make it up to the raven.

Wolf and Deer

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This story is part of the Alaskan Legends unit. Story source:Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).

Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Unit Part A

For my reading choice this week, I chose to do a story from the Alaskan Legends unit. As I was reading through the stories, I truly liked the idea of the Raven’s Creation. In this short story, they show how a man came from a pea pod, and transformed into a ma; it is also shown how a Raven transformed as well. Throughout this story it shows how the Raven feeds the man, turns clay into animals, and give him companions. I would change this story to the Raven not transforming, but being able to communicate to the man still. The Raven would try and still make companions, but only the Raven would see what it was trying to create. The man himself, would only see clay. While the Raven was doing his best to comfort the man and make him things to bring the man pleasure, only the Raven could see its creations. The man would only sit back and laugh at the Raven for not making anything real. While the man was watching the Raven slave over making things for him, he would not appreciate any of it. He would sit in silence, except for the laughter, and watch him fail at making him things. By the end of this story, the man would have nothing- no friends, no food, and no animals. The Raven on the other hand, saw everything; and while it would try and convince the man to enjoy his products, it decided to leave the man alone. All of the animals, food, and friends the Raven thought it made would vanish. Because if no one can see the items the Raven made, then they would vanish.

Raven

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Bibliography:

This story is part of the Alaskan Legends unit. Story source:Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).