I continued reading the Brothers Grimm Ashliman unit for my
extra reading this week. Unfortunately,
it was just as useless to my storybook as the first half of the unit. There were no true villains in these stories,
just people or things that were greedy or simply mean towards other
characters. The stories were meant more
as warnings to be nice to your friends and family, instead of teaching morals
like many of the Grimm fairy tales do.
I did like the tale of the Simeli Mountain more than the
others. When I first read it, I thought
that the Mountain was called Sesimi, not Semsi.
I got excited because I thought that they were basically saying open
sesame, not open Semsi. Proves that I
really need to look at what I am reading and not get in such a hurry! I got all
excited for nothing!
I always like the stories about a personified death, so I like
the story of Death’s Messengers. I think
that it is a great representation of the human ideal in that it is never their
time to die. Death warned the man that
messengers would come, and he ignored them.
He assumed that it was too early for him to die so he didn’t prepare for
his end!
I am really enjoying reading the Grimm units and will
definitely continue to read them!
Death Personified. Source: Wikipedia
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