For the reading unit this week, I chose the BengaliFolktales unit. I chose this unit
because it seemed interesting to me as I am an animal lover. One of the stories that stuck out to me was
The Origin of Opium. Though the title
wasn't very intriguing to me, the story definitely was. In the first part of the story, I thought
that the mouse would continue to change into different animals until it found
one that it liked the most but of course, like everything in life, nothing is
only the positives, so the mouse found something wrong with everything it was
turned into.
As the story went on, I didn't think that the elephant, at
that point, would turn into a beautiful girl.
That was a plot twist for me as I thought it would continue to change
into animals. I was also surprised when
Poppy fell into the water and died because I figured at the end, she would want
to return to being a mouse because the world as a beautiful woman had its ups
and downs too. At the end, I finally
figured out why the name of the story was The Origin of Opium and I thought
that was an interesting end to this story.
I also particularly liked the image attached to the end of
the Origin of Opium series. It had
vibrant colors and helped put an image to the text I was reading. Overall, I liked this first half of the unit
and I’m interested in reading the second half to find out more about the
stories from the Bengal Folktales.
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| The Origin of Opium by Warwick Goble |
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