For this reading diary I decided to focus on
Brer Rabbit. Joel Chandler Harris's series of books of Brer Rabbit tales (almost two hundred stories in total) is one of the most important resources we have for African-American folklore study. For my diary I chose two stories that I found to be the most interesting.
Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace: all of the stories of Brer Rabbit were extremely difficult to understand. I found myself reading this story out loud multiples times to still just barely grasp the meaning. I found this one to be a little more interesting than the rest of the stories because it involved a wide variety of characters, and once again they were animals. I have established many times in the blog that I immediately like a blog more because it includes animals. Once again this statement in true here. I really enjoyed Mr. Possum because I feel like he is very kind, as well as being grounded and thoughtful.
A Story about the Little Rabbits: once again I could barely understand this story because of the language and the way that it was translated. However, overall it was a very good story about cute little rabbits so that made the struggle of reading it much more worthy. I do not think that I will continue to read these stories because I am not able to get as much out of them as I would hope because of the difficulties of reading. The story was very unique in the way it was written.
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