This story was enjoyable to read because I never truly knew what
was going to take place. I mean obviously the title lead the idea of the possum
pretending to be dead but I would say it did a good job describing why he had
to do so. What I didn’t like when thinking about the story as a writer was the
fact that it didn’t really explain why the rabbit felt the need to say their
should be a war. I think that one more sentence could have truly brought the
story together more because the focus was them getting married but then it kind
of just switched randomly.
Keeping this in mind gave me ideas for my own writing of stories.
First of all as I mentioned I feel that I need to make sure that everything
makes sense to the reader and not just in my mind as a writer. Second of all I
think this makes me realize that as a writer I need to keep a patter in legend
style stories. When I say that I mean keeping the same rhythm of going from
town to town like the rabbit did.
In terms of ideas that this story gave me for writing my own
story, I was thinking what if I did a story about two kids racing to get a girl
they have a crush on. I was thinking that maybe one is faster so he reaches her
first but on the way one of the other kids pretended to hurt himself so that
she would notice him and take care of him. This way it would kind of be like
him playing dead like the possum without the point of the war (which I didn’t
enjoy). I feel like everyone would be able to relate to that type of story.
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| This is a picture of an opossum playing dead which I found on Wikimedia Commons. |
Bibliography:
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).
The specific story link is above.
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