For the second half of this week's reading, I chose the story called The Fairy Frog. This story was in Part B of the Jewish Fairy Tales unit. In short, this story was about a young man who came face-to-face with the death of his parents. Before they died, his father gave him very specific instructions regarding the son's future. He told him to wait seven days until Passover, and then go to the market and purchase the first thing that is offered to him. No matter what the cost is, it will bring him good fortune. So the son followed his father's directions, and ended up purchasing a silver casket. He took it back to his house and opened it. It contained a frog that grew and grew, and ate absolutely everything. But in the end, the frog repaid the family for all of the kindness they had shown him. All of the animals in the forest laid precious stones and herbs at their feet. The frog claimed that he was the fairy son of Adam, and then he shrunk down to his original size and hopped away in the forest.
This story has a lot of twists throughout the plot, which would make it potentially easy to redo and remake the story into something creative. One of the first things I would change would be the frog itself. I would make him into a different creature. I would probably add an additional feature onto the end of the story, because it seems to end so abruptly. Maybe they did make their way home with all of the treasures, but one of the things they received from the animals had a curse attached to it. There are a lot of different avenues that this story could continue onto, so I am excited to be able to write my own version this week.
This story has a lot of twists throughout the plot, which would make it potentially easy to redo and remake the story into something creative. One of the first things I would change would be the frog itself. I would make him into a different creature. I would probably add an additional feature onto the end of the story, because it seems to end so abruptly. Maybe they did make their way home with all of the treasures, but one of the things they received from the animals had a curse attached to it. There are a lot of different avenues that this story could continue onto, so I am excited to be able to write my own version this week.
Bibliography:
The Fairy Frog in Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa (1919). Web source.
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The Fairy Frog. Web source.
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