For week nine, I decided to read about Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson. First off, I noticed that throughout all the stories, there was usually a single main character who was followed throughout the entire story. The one exception to this was the story of Bluejay and his Companions. It is because of the notification of this detail that I plan on writing Wednesday’s story with one protagonist.
Another interesting detail that I noticed was that humans are not always the dominant species on the planet and some of these stories tell how things came to be as they are now. With this in mind, I might tell my story in the form of a child’s tale in which the parent is the narrator and the children are the ones who are to learn from what is being told to them. In this way, the story could serve as a learning point about why to respect the world around them, since it may not have always been as it is now. Also, if the story is told in this format, it could serve as a warning/reasoning as to why the grown-ups do the particular things that they do.
Additionally, I plan on taking some elements from the Bluejay story because I liked how the Grouse silently took the treatment from the Bluejay and his companions and then acted accordingly in his own clever way. In doing this, the Bluejay and his companions had to go on a journey in which they faced multiple trials in order to get back home. Once they finally made it back home, they respected the Grouse and gave him his fair share of the seal spoils. The main element that I plan on taking from this story is the adventure that Bluejay and his companions went on.
Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson
Image: a blue jay
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