Myth & Folklore

  Short Story: Her results came in at ten o’clock. “You have Covid-19. Isolate, hydrate and if you have trouble breathing call 911.” And so our journey began. My sick wife moved into the spare bedroom, and I took on all the family responsibilities, terrified and lonely for my love who lay fifty feet away. We called the children, “Just in case, our wills and life insurance policies are in the top drawer of the desk. Just in case, we left our medical directives on the kitchen table. Just in case, we love you so much. Thank you for being our family. “ (Image Information: Centers for Disease Control:  https://www.fox13now.com/news/coronavirus/local-coronavirus-news/472-new-covid-19-cases-one-new-death-reported-on-saturday) Tweet: Cuomo invites all accusers to come forward and gather in New York nursing home. Author's Note: As COVID-19 pandemic is slowly starting to slow down, I wanted to write a short story showing how bad the pandemic was to a lot of people. The tweet is directly...

Bibliography: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange (1692) http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/aesops-fables-more-foxes.html (Image Information: Sweet Grapes:  https://kathakids.com/fables/sweet-grapes/) -While Roger L'Estrange tells story in a more classic way, Smart tells the stories like a poem. I mentioned wanting to write a story of similar type in earlier reading notes and it may be a more difficult than I originally planned. -In this story, a fox who sees a clump of grapes hanging from a tree and decides to eat them to quench his thirst.  -The fox attempts to jump and retrieve the grapes, but they are out of reach. The fox is determined that the grapes must be sour and confidently, yet disappointedly, eventually walks away from the grapes when he sees that he cannot get them. -The moral of the story is basically that you often hate what you cannot have and we all want what we cannot have.  -Aesop likes to use third-person point of ...

  Bibliography: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange (1692) http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/aesops-fables-another-lion.html (Image Information: The man and the lion:  https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/the-man-and-the-lion-Aesops-fables-retold) -In this story, a lion and a man chances to travel in a company through the forest and soon they began to boast each other about how their own species and kind was far more superior. -The story is written in old English writing as expected and it may be a bit more difficult to understand the story but it is very much manageable.  -The lion and the man reached a clearing in the forest and saw a statue that was a representation of Hercules in the act of tearing the jaws of the invincible Nemean Lion. -When the man saw this he told the lion that it is obvious that the man is stronger as the King of the Beasts was beaten by Hercules, a man.  -The lion proceeds to say that the status is ...