Overall I thought some of these stories were very odd, but also
interesting. They were different than stories I have usually read. I found that
I didn't like the first two stories of this section as much as I did the last
two stories.
The most interesting part of the first story for me was the
ending. I kept waiting wanting to know how the boy was going to finally find
fear, and I thought it was interesting how it happened. It was something small
that ended up allowing him to identify the feeling of fear. A bird fly out
and catches him by surprises and startles him, this is when he identifies what
fear feels like.
My favorite of the stories is the 3rd story, ‘The
fish-Peri.’ I like the idea of this beautiful fish turning into a woman. This
might be a possibility for me to write another story where a fish turns into
someone. I thought all the crazy things that he had to do during the story were
interesting also. How he makes a bridge of crystal, and feeds the whole town.
One thing I’m still not sure about is why his father didn’t want him to know he
was a fisherman.
The names in all these stories confused me too, no one ever really
had traditional specific names.
A few themes I found interesting are:
The number 40, every story at some point had something happen for
40 days.
Birds: there are birds in every story, and in most story’s a
pretty big part.
Jobs: the theme of occupations and your parents jobs also pops up
in the stories.
(The beautiful fish that turns into a woman - Wikipedia)
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