Ever feel like
giving love the boot? Well, from
the land shaped like a boot, we can be taught lessons in love that
might keep us from making mistakes in relationships. My topic for the
storybook project is to tell love stories out of Italian Popular Tales
by Thomas
Crane. Thomas Crane happened to be a very popular professor. My
storyteller for these stories is going to be a
crazy and fun Italian professor named Serafina at a university who
helps her young
students through their love triangles or other relationship problems by
overhearing them talking in class and giving them advice and telling
stories.
My first story that I chose is called "In Love with a
Statue." It tells about a guy that falls in love with a statue and his
brother tells him he should find a real person and the brother says he
could only love somebody just like the statue. The story plays out a
little
more, but the point I am trying to get across is that you shouldn't set
impossible standards for finding love. This can teach us a lesson about trying to find
someone who looks like something fake, like wanting to be with someone
who looks like they could be on a magazine cover. If you are looking for a statue, that just might be
what you
get, and that doesn't make anyone happy. You shouldn't look for love in
the wrong places.
Another story I chose to use was "Fair Maria Wood." It is
about a girl whose mother passes away and after that, her father wants
to marry her, and they are married, but she asks him for four beautiful
dresses as well as a dress made out of wood. She puts on her dress made
of wood and floats herself down the river. You will just have to read
about what she finds at the end of the river. This story teaches a good
lesson because it shows how shallowness (not shallow water) can keep us
from good things in
our lives and how we should be open minded in those people we are
around and get to know them, regardless of their appearance or clothing
choices.
The third story I chose to tell was "The Fair
Fiorita." It is about a guy who really cares about his sisters and
doesn't necessarily like the guys that they married. While on a search
for the Fair Fiorita, he meets back up with his sisters and their
husbands end up helping him on a difficult adventure.
The final story of my storybook is "How the Devil
Married Three Sisters." It tells how we should watch out for the people
we chose to be with. They might end up being the devil, but there's
always some sort of revenge to seek. This was a story for Vera.
Some sources I used for research are History
of
Italian Literature and The
History of Italy. These
were good starting off places to learn little tidbits of information
that might help me get into the culture of the stories I will be
telling.
Story 1: In Love With a Statue
Story 2: Fair Maria Wood
Story 3: The Fair Fiorita
Story 4: How the Devil Married Three
Sisters
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