reading notes: the wolf and the goat, part A

For this week, I read The Wolf and The Goat from the Persian Tales Unit.

Right off the bat, I noticed how the Persian culture was tied into this story. The Wolf listened in on the baby goat's mom and dyed his him with henna in order to make it red like the mom's hand.

In addition to this, they included a traditional Persian dish in the story called ash. 

Another part that I really enjoyed and would like to attempt to incorporate into my own story is the rhyming. This made the wolf and goat dialogue much more fluent and entertaining as they confronted each other.

I was a little confused when the two exchanged skins and the goat was called a dentist, but the end of the story was clear.

I may use the sense of foolishness from this wolf in my own story.

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Persian Tales, translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919). The Wolf and The Goat.