Reading Notes: The Cunning Wolf (B)
Source: The Cunning Wolf By Ellen C. Babbitt The people of a town all celebrated a holiday in the woods, however ate all their meat before noontime. This can symbolize some greed and foreshadow a problem in the future. I like the use of foreshadowing here and I could use it in many of my stories! So a man volunteered to get more meat to feed the people. He went to a pond to play dead with a club. He chose the pond because it is where animals drink water and are often vulnerable. I do not believe in hunting animals in this extreme kind of vulnerability, so I am not rooting for the man and I hope he will get outsmarted by the wolf. This is an interesting tactic in a story where people with different opinions will support different characters. So far I have always had an obvious hero and obvious villain. I like how this story allows the reader to support a character based on their opinions. So when the king of the wolves came by, he decided to pull a trick on the man by pulling on the cl