Week 10 Reading Part A: Baldwin Project Jataka Tales
This week the story that caught my attention most of all the ones we read was How the Turtle Saved His Own Life. This story was fascinating to me because it reminded me of the Brer Rabbit stories I read as a child, which were some of my favorites. The Turtle using reverse psychology in order to trick his captors into giving him the best available "death" which in fact freed him always made me laugh, and I want to be able to modernize this laugh in my own writing this week. To do so, the first thing would be to expand on this dialogue, make it longer, and make the turtle more sarcastic and humorous, like Brer Rabbit. This will allow me to put some more modern commentary in the story. Another potential twist I could add would be to put the story in a tech world, something to do with robots or the like, to give it a new setting I don't believe the story has been done in yet. This could be done for most of the other stories this week, but because of the childhood connection, this is the one that most intrigued me.
Bibliography:
How the Turtle Saved his own Life, Jataka Tales, Ellen C. Babbit
Angry Turtle, from pexels
Bibliography:
How the Turtle Saved his own Life, Jataka Tales, Ellen C. Babbit
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