Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Part B

This story is part of the Alaskan Legends unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).

In this part, different stories do not have many connections with each other. For example, the first story, it tells the origin of the Chilkat Blanket while the second tells the story about the origin of women. In the former part, stories are coherent. Two different writing strategies exist in one storybook. I think both of them would be a good strategy to build my own project. 

For now, I prefer the second strategy cause I want readers to find some relationships between different stories when they read. Also, I do not think that those relationships should only be some simple factors such as characters appear in one place. But, different characters with various emotions and personalities may confront some similar situations. They would react diversely, and their reactions would lead to disparate outcomes. 

Besides, I enjoy the plots of the Origin of the Chilkat Blanket. Although the woman faced two men, one represents animals, another one represents nature, this is not a romantic story about true love, but it talks about how the Chilkat Blanket comes from. In my view, it is interesting to endow house and living things with some mythological factors.

Chilkat Blanket. Web Source: Pinterest.