This week I chose to read the Twenty-Two Goblins for the unit. This
reading was very different than all of the previous readings I have done.
I liked that these were several stories being told within a story.
Every time the Goblin ran from the king I was filled with anxiousness for
the king to catch him. I also looked forward to the next story that the
Goblin was going to tell the king.
My favorite story was The GeneralsWife. This was my favorite story told by the Goblin because it had a
sweet but tragic ending. In this story a General was told many terrible things
about this beautiful woman named Passion. Little did he know, she was
full of beauty and made people fall in love with her everywhere she went.
Before meeting her, he decided he did not want to marry Passion.
She was then wed to a different man who happened to be a slave of the
General. One day the General accidentally saw Passion and fell madly in
love with her. He knew she was now married and fell into a deep
depression knowing he had once turned her down. The slave of the general
found out about how depressed the general was and offered his wife to him!
The general turned down the offer knowing that was not the right thing to
do but then he committed suicide. It's such a love filled story with both
romance love and the love of a friendship. I was glad the General knew it
was not noble of him to take the mans wife but I wish the story had ended up
with the General meeting someone knew or at staying alive!
From this unit
I learned more about telling stories within a story. I do not think I am ready to try that
particular writing style yet but it definitely helped me get a better grasp on
how to do that smoothly. I also enjoyed
that each story the Goblin told had questions with it. It was neat to see how the character viewed
each story compared to my opinions of the stories.
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