Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Reading Notes: Saint and Animals, Part B

The story about the sea caught my attention the whole way through. There's just something sea life through the calm and chaos that draws me in. Back in middle in high school I read a bunch of fiction novels about mermaids and the stormy seas. This brought back memories.

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Tarzan's foster mom with Jane and Tarzan by Divo Eterno
Immediately, the Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe started off saddening. The mother and father left their baby on a mountain to fend for himself. When the wolf became Ailbe’s second mom, I thought of Tarzan and how he was raised by gorillas. He adapted to his surroundings. Then hunters tried to take Tarzan away just like how this mysterious prince took him. I’m glad the wolf mother did not die like Kerchak, the dad gorilla, in Tarzan!

The Ballad is poem format instead of story/paragraphs. There is an ABAB style. I love rhymes, but they can be more difficult to understand and interpret. The introduction to all the ballads start off nicely. It sets the tone of the rest of the story. This style of writing is more elegant to see, but again it is hard to comprehend what is happening because I get caught up in the different way of speaking.

Saint Francis stood for charity and peace. This is more on the religious side: saint, preach, holy, god, lord.

Saint and Animals by Abbie Farwell Brown

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