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Week 5 Story: The Merchant and His Iron

This story is in my portfolio. Feel free to look at it  here  . Chips and Dip A short time from now in a galaxy the same as your own, Shopper desperately needed chips and dip. Shopper turned to Bro, his roommate, and said, “ Bruh , I need some chips and dip. Can you watch Beauty, the Prius, while I walk to Wally World? I won’t be longer than thirty minutes.”   Bro exhaled his vape and said , “Yeah. I got you, man.”   Shopper replied, “Thanks, dude!”   Bro was starting to get worried when Shopper had not returned in the thirty-minute time frame from the ten miles, uphill- in- the- snow trip to Wally World.   After thirty-one minutes, Bro took this as an opportunity to take the Prius out for a spin. After rounding his last light pole in the ten-story-high parking lot, there was a strategically placed banana peel in his path. The Prius spun out of control and off the tenth story. On the way down, Bro looked at the ground and...

Reading Notes Part B: Fables of Bidpai

I still continue the same writing ideas as Part A. I think those options provide an adequate amount of interesting stories that I could recreate and make my own. I enjoyed the lessons that the fables were conveying. Part B is similar to Part A's reading because all of the fables are using animals to tell a story and pass on their wisdom to the readers. The Blind Man and the Snake is a story that, for me, did not have as obvious of a lesson than the others. The only lesson I got from this was to trust your fellow man. The Camel Driver and the Adder had a good lesson to teach, but I feel like they drug out the story more than they needed to. They added many characters and the same thing happened multiple times. On other reading pages, there can be up to three stories that tell a story just as well as this one that takes the entire page. Length is not always a positive thing. The Tortoise and the Geese attempts to teach a lesson about patience, pride, and being able to stay quie...

Reading Notes Part A: Fables of Bidpai

I enjoyed the majority of these fables. I like that each one can teach you a different lesson. The fox stories got old after the first few. I would like to write a story about greed, foolishness, or deceit. My favorite story is "The Merchant and His Iron." In this story, a man tries to lie to his friend about a rat stealing his iron. The man who lied lost his child and the friend told him that a bird flew away with him. Of course, the man did not believe him, so the friend said that it was not a ridiculous idea that a bird could fly away with a child in a town where rats eat two hundred tons of iron. Another possible story I could write would be similar to "The Farmer, the Sheep, and the Robbers." Four robbers fooled a man into thinking that his sheep was a dog so that they could steal it. When the man left his sheep tied to a tree to go yell at the man who sold it to him, the robbers stole the sheep. This story could be a little more tricky if I wanted to turn it...