Week 2 Reading Diary, Continued: Jewish Fairy Tales

These are some more notes that were inspired from reading Jewish Fairy Tales by Gertrude Landa.

The title of the first story I read makes me want to write a story where the main character is asleep the whole time and dreaming but the reader doesn't realize this until the end of the story. I think I probably got the idea from the movie Shutter Island, which is a great movie if you haven't seen it.

Another story had some funny words that rhymed, which makes me want to create a story that rhymes the whole time. It could be something like spoken poetry that tells the story of a character or maybe a place. I think it would be interesting to tell a story about something a redwood tree saw because I feel like they could probably tell some good stories if they could talk.

Look at those giants!
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I once heard a pretty powerful song about a guy who wanted to be in a gang and in order to do so there was a induction task that had to be done first. He was told he would have to kill someone in order to become a part of the crew. At the end of the song it is revealed to him that he unintentional killed his own mother. After reading about Jews being persecuted I think it would be interesting to make a story about someone who thinks he is killing in the name of something comical like Captain Crunch. The person could notice some secret writing on the back of a cereal box that leads him to believe he needs to kill something or someone. It could kind of be a comedic play on something that the reader could recognize as something that is happening in our world today, but with a slight spin.

It is funny to see my brain go to different places when reading some of these fairy tales. Sometimes my thoughts will seem so far away from what I was actually looking at yet I can still trace back the origin of the thought process.