For this week, I read the first half of the Brer Rabbit I unit, which was quite a challenge. I took to reading the stories aloud so I could better understand them, which definitely took quite a bit longer than usual. I recognized some of the stories from when I was little though, as my grandma’s family was from Georgia, and she used to tell them to me when I was little, though the way she told them was much easier to understand.
I really liked the first story of the unit, Brer Rabbit and The Calamus Root, because it really gives you a good idea of what the character of Brer Rabbit is like, and how much of a trickster he is. He sees through the schemes of a lot of animals who seem to be a lot more clever than he is, so you never know how he’s going to turn things back around on them. As is shown in later stories though, he can get himself into trouble from time to time, so he has to think quickly to get out of… sticky situations. (I couldn’t resist the tar-baby pun. I’m not sorry.)
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| Brer Rabbit and the Tar-baby |
I also really liked How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox, which tells how Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox after he gets trapped in Brer Fox’s tar-baby. I found that the stories got easier to understand the more that I read them, and I think that reading them aloud really helped me understand some of the words that look like nonsense when written. Again, Brer Rabbit manages to trick Brer Fox, even when he seems to have gotten himself into a great deal of trouble, which is why the character of Brer Rabbit is such fun. You never know what kind of tricks he might use to get out of trouble.
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