The moon was shining bright, and there was not a cloud in the sky. He was bored of simply hunting for his food and wanted a challenge.
"What a better night to spice things up than tonight?" he thought.
As he walked along his hunting path, he gazed near and far looking for inspiration when a loud noise caused him to come to stop. Slowly, he crept closer and closer until he found the source. It was a pack of goats that had just chopped down a tree.
The wolf saw this as a sign. His challenge must have something to do with this pack of foolish goats.
"Who would leave their home and make so much noise at this time of night? They are asking for it..." the wolf thought.
Without breaking a single branch under his paws, the wolf made his way to the goat's living quarters. Just as he thought, not a soul was home.
One by one, he went through each of the goat's belongings. He was so excited, he got a little carried away. Before he knew it, he was trying on their clothes, playing their instruments, and cooking their food.
All of this fun wore him out to the point that he decided to take a little nap in one of the goat's beds.
Over an hour passed and the wolf woke up in a state of confusion. He was now hanging from a tree!
"What a fool you must be to travel to our home alone and create so much noise so late at night!" a goat shouted.
"Not again..." the wolf sighed.
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This story was about a wolf that snuck into a momma goat's home while she was running an errand. He tried to steal all of her babies, but one was able to run and hide. Once the mom returned, the baby that hid let her know that the wolf had come and stole his brothers. The momma goat then went and told the wolf that she would fight him for her babies. He agreed and, as they walked to their fighting place, the momma goat offered the wolf to drink water from a stream in preparation for the fight. Foolishly, the wolf drank until he was so bloated he could barely jump across the stream. The momma goat stabbed him in the stomach with her horn and won back her babies.
I changed the story by having the wolf steal from a family of goats while they were bonding away form their home. Like the original, the wolf's foolishness gets him into trouble.
Persian Tales, translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919). The Wolf and The Goat.
Hi Natalie, I like that you were able to write a story with a different storyline but still keep the main message of the story the same. I also like that your version is not as violent either because the original involved the wolf trying to abduct the baby goats as well as the mom killing the wolf. I also like the dialogue you added.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the playfulness of your story. The wolf, though clearly in the wrong, is still likeable. The whole sneaking into someone's house and using their things reminds me of the story of Goldilocks. I particularly liked your ending. It made me curious as to what other scrapes the wolf has gotten into, and whether he has woken up hanging from a tree before.
Ha, "not again". Nice karma insert in your story. It's always so funny to have a character get what they were meaning to inflict on another character. I don't usually like a cliffhanger, but I think you can pretty much know that the wolf will be just fine if he had ended up in a similar situation before. Very nice.
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