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Reading Notes:Alaskan Legends-Part A

 Raven's Marriage

All the stories contained in this unit carry with them animal characters with funny little personalities. My favorite story from Part A would have to be the Raven's Marriage. I am always drawn to the happy little love stories I find hidden in the different units. I really focused on the way that this unit used the animal characters. I want to incorporate that in one way or another into one of my storytelling blogs or even into one of the stories I can use for my portfolio project. I think that using animals as the characters helps to add an element to the stories in a way that human characters cannot. The way these stories used a raven as the main character and followed him from one event into the next was curious. Raven was a happy go lucky guy but at the same time is seen as a cry baby when he does not get his way. The other animals throughout the story like the geese and marmont are seen at times praising the raven for the things he does. Creating characters like these who can talk and show personality is a fun way to change up a story. It may be interesting to see what it would be like to take a normal story containing people and then turn them into different kinds of animals based on their personalities. In the future, this could even turn into its own theme for a set of portfolio stories. If it was not too late to go in and change the theme of my portfolio this would be something that is super unique and would lead to a really fun and light hearted project.

(Cute Raven from Wannapik)

Bibliography

Alaskan Legends unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).
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