The story called "The Jealous Uncle" interested me the most when it started off more gruesome than most of the stories I have read in this class. However, the fate of the main character was different than many of the stories from other parts of the world. The writer starts by talking about a man who would kill his nephews when they would get to be just a few years old. A new nephew was born, but he acted like a girl his entire childhood in order to be spared. When his uncle finally figured out he was a boy, he was set on killing him. The boy uses three unsuspecting objects to get himself out of his attempted murder, but unfortunately the uncle trapped him in a box and left him in the ocean to die.
For my story this week, I have the option to write a version of the original story of "The Jealous Uncle". I want to use the same premise for my story by including a terrorizing uncle, a nephew and three odd items. The part of the story where the innocent boy uses random objects to get out of the fatal situations is most entertaining because this allows me to use my imagination when creating three new objects for my character to use. This story, in particular, gave me some insight into the culture of storytelling in Native American tribes. In a Native American Studies class I took, we learned about the importance of storytelling to the Native Americans and how they cherish this time that they spend together with their family. They are a very close-knit group of people and I like being able to read some of these culturally significant stories. I want to incorporate this part of their culture as well in my storytelling assignment this week.
Tribe joined together to tell stories.
Tales of the North American Indian by Stith Thompson
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