Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology

Reading Notes on Turtle/Geese and Crane/Crab

By: Maria Dawson

This image gives a clear picture of the story over the turtle and two geese. This image is named The Boastful Turtle by OpenClipart.

For this week's reading notes I could not decide between the story of the Crane and the Crab or the Turtle and Geese of being my favorite Anthology. The first story that was my favorite was written by Ellen C. Babbit and titled The Turtle who Couldn't Stop Talking. This specific story first got my attention from the vivid detail the author was able to give with only a few sentences, you can truly imagine yourself in the story watching this unfold. The moral of this story is about learning when the right time to speak is and when you should keep things to yourself. Unfortunately for this turtle, he had to learn the hard way about when he should talk and when he should not. My main takeaway from this short story is learning how to tell a life lesson from the views of a simple construct such as from one turtle and two geese. Another life lesson is found in my other favorite reading from this week from the author W. H. D. Rouse and titled The Cunning Crane and the Crab. For this life lesson, the crane learns that being misleading will only get him so far in life and how someone is able to see through his disguise. The main details I paid attention to for this short story is the style of each line broken up in spaces in between creating flow and a personal style. This story also goes back and forth between dialogue in the characters as well as narration.