Reading Notes: Great Plains, Part A

Great Plains: The Eagle's Revenge

What I liked about this story was how concise it was yet still gave off a drastic amount of information. Somehow as a reader you could actually imagine the eagle, the people dancing, and of course the death. I think it was a cool aspect of saying the word "Hi!" and the reader already being able to tell what was going to happen next. I think this is a good way to tell a revenge story as a writer, which since I have written a revenge story already in this class, it sparked some ideas for me. Since my portfolio is based around children I was thinking what if I have a kid be a magician but with the single snap of his fingers he is able to perform some type of revenge. I'm not saying it has to be death because I feel that is a bit aggressive for the style of my portfolio but I think maybe it would be funny for him to get revenge on the kids who bullied him.I was even thinking about twisting this story around and having it be an eagle mad at humans instead just to add a different dynamic.Maybe even have the eagles and deer team up to fight the humans.

  One thing I would like to do differently than this story though is change the ending to be a little bit more descriptive. I felt that it kind of just slipped in the fact that he was brother's with the eagle and as a writer I feel something like that should be more climatic. Overall, I enjoyed the style of this writing in the sense that I respected the conciseness of the events yet fully being able to visualize each aspect, however even though it was meant to be concise I felt the connection of the man with the eagle could have been told better which I would like to change. 

Bibliography:

 Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

The link to the exact story is above. 

A picture of a kid magician I found on Pixabay.