Reading Notes: Italian Popular Tales, Part B

Reading Notes from Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Crane.

Reading Notes, Part B

The Language of Animals

Animals in a zoo. Source: Youtube

I would create a story in which a boy has been raised from birth in a zoo. His family are not gorillas. They are not monkeys. They are not anything you've heard before. They are giraffes. This boy can talk to the giraffes and his mother, Delila, has raised him as her own. This would be loosely based
off the reading but also off The Jungle Book. I would have everything be normal, until one night the zoo night guard comes by and thinks someone is trying to steal the animals, meanwhile is only the boy. They have never been caught before this. The boy runs away and hides as best he can, but because he doesn't understand how the real world works, he hides in a cage. The night guard calls the police and an entire investigation is started. The boy is scared. So he escapes as soon as he can with the help of his mother and her long neck. The boy runs as far away as he can. Then I would start to base the story off Elf, where he discovers the city and the fascinating things it has to offer him.

The Sexton's Nose

I would write a story about how a young man found a hundred dollar bill on the floor and had a small idea that he had been dreaming of every since he was small. He took the hundred dollar bill and invested it by gambling. He scored big. What can he say? He had great luck. He takes all his winnings, because where he lived and in the age he was in, he was allowed to gamble. So he takes all the money and becomes a millionaire by the time he is 22. But he doesn't live a normal life. He never grew up understanding how normal people live. He didn't understand the struggle. Story to be continued...