One of the things I would like to take note of about this story was how there is a story within the story. I really haven't thought about doing this in any of my stories but I feel that this is a great way to set up a moral style story. I feel that this makes it easier to make a point in terms of conversation. Another thing I like about this story is the character of the Cat. I have written a story for this class where I made the moral of the story to pay attention to the details but I didn't have a character like the cat actually learn something through conversation. I think in my writing that if I had character like the kitten who asks questions to make a point it could make my moral more easily understood by the reader. What I really like about this is the "storyception" as I would call it. As if the point wasn't made clear by the Kitten and Cat, the parrot then relates it to his situation which truly wraps it up. Although I think this would take away from the story with the moral that I have already written, I would like to keep this in mind if I write another fable type story. However in terms of ideas that popped into my head, I was thinking about possibly writing a story about the one mouse who lived and his ideas about it. I was considering having him tell the story as if it were a horror story to some other mice. I was thinking about making it sound like a war story as well in the sense that they prepared to get the food and thought that the kitten would be easily fooled and less violent than he was. All of these are just ideas and things I appreciate from the story but this truly got my mind running on all of the possibilities.
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| A dead mouse found on Common Wikimedia. |
Bibliography:
The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi (1801).
The link to the specific story is above.
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