Week 9 Reading Notes Part A

   I chose to take notes on How Kengi Lost Her Child for this weeks first reading.

(Photo from the source book)


Plot

This is a really simple plot. Two women have land split between them by their shared husband. One day one of the woman takes some beans from the other woman's farm. The second woman is very cross about this and demands that they set some ground rules. They agree that everything birthed on their land belongs to them and the other has no claim to it. Life goes on. One day the second woman comes to the first woman for some tobacco to help aid her pains. She sit on the woman's land and smokes. She gives birth to a baby. The first woman claims the baby as her own and they argue. They go to a town to have the dispute settled. The prince decides that the first woman is acting within her rights because of the agreement they made. The baby is hers.

 Characters

There's not much to say about characters here. It's a short story. I get the feeling that the second woman is meant to be a bit selfish and bitter while the first woman is fairly kind but also righteous and clever. This dichotomy could definitely be played up more if I wanted to.

Story Ideas

Immediately after reading this story, I was picturing a version involving two siblings arguing about a "finders keepers" declaration. It would allow for a bit more of a comedic take and a modern setting. The stakes of the situation could really be amped up by the desperation of the child for whatever it is they lost. Kids think even teh smallest thing is a holy grail.

Bibliography. How Kengi Lost Her Child from Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by Richard Edward Dennett

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Introduction of Me, Myself and I

Image
        The Hollywood Sign By Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43944546 Hi, my name is Caleb. I am a third year Creative Media Production major in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.  I am also working towards a minor in General Business in the Price College of Business. I am pursuing a focus in screenwriting in my major while still getting the basics of actual single camera productions.      Even though I am pursuing a focus in screenwriting, one of the coolest parts of being a CMP major at Gaylord is working on the set of short film productions. There is nothing that quite matches the atmosphere and feeling of being on even a tiny set and helping to contribute to the final product. My favorite class year was entirely this experience. The class was a pass/fail practicum in which I had to accrue a minimum number of hours working as crew on other students' short films. It was great! It was exhausting, bu
Read more

Week 2 Story: Beauty and the Basilisk

Image
Beauty and the Basilisk Basilisk  by Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch (1747-1822).           Once upon a time, a mother and her three daughters lived in a small hamlet on the outskirts of a once glorious kingdom. Of course, this kingdom no longer exists because it's the 21st century. It's probably a nest of freeways and a couple McDonald's now. I don't know. That's not important. What is important is the fact that while this kingdom existed, a mother and her three daughters lived there in a small hamlet on the outskirts.          One day, a market rolled into a nearby village. You know the type. It's not quite big enough to be a full blown town but still big enough to justify a seasonal market. Anyways, before heading off to this market, the mother asked her three daughters if they would like her to bring them back anything. The first two daughters each rattled off a laundry list of items that they absolutely needed. These were the kind of girls that believed the
Read more