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 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

 Source: Why the Owl is not the King of Birds By Ellen C. Babbitt I chose this story because Owls were my favorite animal when I was a kid. This is off topic but it reminded me of when I got in trouble as a kid, and my parents were going to tell the story at a big family dinner. To save myself from embarrassment, I yelled, "An owl says HOO!!!" Then everyone erupted in laughter knowing what I was trying to do. Maybe I will incorporate something like that in my stories. The story started off with a question which is the first time I have read a story start with a question. I like this approach because it gives the question the story was made to answer. Each group has their own king, which is somewhat true in the real world in the sense of a hierarchy and the past of man-kind. However, the birds were the only ones without a king. So after lots of discussion, the birds finally chose the owl as their king. The title of the story already gives it away that the owl will not be the k