Week 14 Reading Notes: Italian Popular Tales pt B

I can't believe this is my last reading of the whole class! This has been so much fun and I have really enjoyed getting to read stories from so many different countries, cultures, and backgrounds. I decided to focus my last set of notes on the story called "The Cat and the Mouse." I enjoyed most of the stories from part B, but I liked this one the best because it seemed familiar to me. For this note-taking post, I decided to do the note style focused on sentences. I love picking out beautiful sentences, and so I thought that would be a good note to end on.

A dog passed by and said, "Do you want me?"

this made me laugh, trying to imagine a cat standing on the corner advertising how she wanted to get married, but then being asked by a dog if she wanted to marry him. This was a funny sentence!

The cat accepted him and said, "Let us go and be married, for you please me." So they were married.

This was just as funny as the first sentence because here the cat is talking to a mouse. She had tested the singing of many different animals, but she liked the mouse singing the best. She based her decision of marriage purely on singing, which is hilarious to me.

"Ah! my little mouse! Ah! my little mouse!" So she went and sat behind the door, lamenting the mouse.

The mouse got stuck in the pot, and the cat found him when she was preparing dinner. For some reason, I still found this funny, although it was sad when she called him her little mouse.

The tree replied, "The mouse died, the cat tears her hair, the door slams, the window opens and shuts, and I, as tree, threw myself down."

this theme kept going and going for many different objects and animals who were all mourning the loss of the mouse. I thought this was a great consistency throughout the story.

"And I, as king, am going to take my coffee."

This was the final sentence of the story, and it honestly really confused me. I didn't understand how this had anything to do with the cat or the mouse. I did not love the ending of this story.

A cat and mouse together

Bibliography: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885).

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