Reading Notes: Pacific Northwest Part B
This story was very interesting and a tad confusing. It was called "Cry-Because-He-Had-No-Wife."
I thought this story might have some sort of Native American meaning, but after reading it, it did not stand out in that way.
The story started out with a young boy that cried all the time because he wanted a wife. How old was he? Why did he want a wife so bad? The boy lived with his grandparents and they told him about a lady in the east that he could go see. The boy started on his journey to the east.
This is where the story took a confusing turn...
The boy stopped at this giant's house and went in to see him. The giant insisted that the boy stay for breakfast so he did. The giant cooked up a roast and asked the boy to choose which roast he wanted. Being small, the boy chose the small roast and the giant let him live. Was the giants going to kill him if he chose the large roast? How was that significant?
The boy went on his way after breakfast, but he quickly came upon another giant under a cliff. The last giant warned him about the cliff giant and gave the boy clues to how to escape. With the help of the other giant, the boy escaped and kept on his journey.
He was coming up on the girls cottage when a horse began to race towards him, he thought fast and threw stones to distract the horse from stampeding him. The boy finally reached the cottage and the girl made him a bath which turned him into a man. They were married and the two trekked home to his house. His wife said if your grandparents obey me, I can make them young again, but his grandparents did not obey and they died the next day.
After all that, they trekked all the way back to her house, taking on more giants, and escaping to freedom. I honestly do not know what to say about this story because I am very confused by the plot and point of it all...
Bibliography: Cry-Because-He-Had-No-Wife from the Pacific Northwest Unit by Katharine Berry Judson
I thought this story might have some sort of Native American meaning, but after reading it, it did not stand out in that way.
The story started out with a young boy that cried all the time because he wanted a wife. How old was he? Why did he want a wife so bad? The boy lived with his grandparents and they told him about a lady in the east that he could go see. The boy started on his journey to the east.
This is where the story took a confusing turn...
The boy stopped at this giant's house and went in to see him. The giant insisted that the boy stay for breakfast so he did. The giant cooked up a roast and asked the boy to choose which roast he wanted. Being small, the boy chose the small roast and the giant let him live. Was the giants going to kill him if he chose the large roast? How was that significant?
The boy went on his way after breakfast, but he quickly came upon another giant under a cliff. The last giant warned him about the cliff giant and gave the boy clues to how to escape. With the help of the other giant, the boy escaped and kept on his journey.
He was coming up on the girls cottage when a horse began to race towards him, he thought fast and threw stones to distract the horse from stampeding him. The boy finally reached the cottage and the girl made him a bath which turned him into a man. They were married and the two trekked home to his house. His wife said if your grandparents obey me, I can make them young again, but his grandparents did not obey and they died the next day.
After all that, they trekked all the way back to her house, taking on more giants, and escaping to freedom. I honestly do not know what to say about this story because I am very confused by the plot and point of it all...
This is what I imagine the cliff giant to look like.
Bibliography: Cry-Because-He-Had-No-Wife from the Pacific Northwest Unit by Katharine Berry Judson
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