Reading Notes: Jewish Fairy Tales, Part A

For part A of the Jewish Fairy Tales, I read "The Quarrel of Cat and Dog". I chose the Jewish Fairy Tales list as it sounded like a unit that would give me a cool and different perspective on fairy tales and the storytelling in Israel at this time. The story starts like any other story with a small backstory, and then, all of a sudden, everything goes South and causes turmoil. The friends, the cat and dog, were best buddies then the Winter began to cause a rift between the two. The story continues with arguments and that figuring out of the rift and how destroyed the relationship was. There is one instance that I would like to bring up and that is when the cat comes to Adam for help. It seem generic, but when the cat asks Adam to do something about the dog it is crazy to thing about. The cat goes up to Adam complaining about how the dog had been forbidden from the premises. It gives the feel of a divorce or a really hard break that is occurring between the two animals. It does make it easy to choose and let Adam know as the cat can talk and communicate with great accuracy with Adam. It made me chuckle a bit as a cat is controlling the owners decisions and that will never happen in my life but it does in this story. It was a very interesting concept of a dog and cat arguing and making decisions compared to the stories with just people. The aspect of animals gives readers a new thing to focus and want to read as animals are a lot more fun to read about. They are really easy to relate two as well as animals can change moods and feeling very quickly and most of the time authors want to have multiple ways to help engage and audience.

Dog and Cat just chilling at home. https://images.app.goo.gl/t8szX3XZBWAittx38

Bibliography: Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa (1919). .http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/04/jewish-fairy-tales-quarrel-of-cat-and.html