Week 2 Reading Diary: Jewish Fairy Tales

My inspiration for this post comes from my first week of reading Jewish Fairy Tales by Gertrude Landa.

Right away as I start reading and a unicorn enters into the story I notice myself thinking something interesting. Does this fairy tale inadvertently discredit the bible in a way? The reason I am thinking this is because I am a Christian. It is frustrating to think that a non-believer might come across something like this and link it together with the bible because it has an important bible character in it, Noah. I am not an in your face bible beating Christian but it does make me wonder if this is an unfortunate distraction for some readers. In my future writings and stories on this blog I have made a mental note not to create stories that mix bible characters and extreme make-believe.

I think it would be worthwhile to try and make a story that demonstrates how success is not found in money and things but instead in love and helping others. I was recently listening to an interview someone did with J. Cole (hip hop artist) and he was speaking about how our capitalist system has developed this illusion of success that focuses on money and selfishness and less on helping each other as people.

What is Success?
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Another possible story idea that I think would be fun to work in would be a story where dogs represent only females and cats represent only males. Both the cats and dogs could go through a story where then eventually realize they needs each other to live in this world even though they are so different and have a hard time understanding each other. It could also be cool to make a story where cats and dogs are talking to each other and making fun of humans. I have seen some funny movies that involve making pets more human and I think they are pretty funny.

I think one of the most debilitating things in this world that people deal with every day is fear. I think it would be fun to make a story that shows fear as the name of a person, maybe a child. There could be a kid that at first is scared to go talk to fear for numerous reasons but as he gets to know fear he becomes more comfortable with him and even learns to love him as a friend.