“Okay children, this story is about a guy getting buried alive inside a wall…”
One of the mandatory texts in my country’s curriculum was the story of workers building a church and the head architect had to bury his pregnant wife alive into one of the walls, because creation requires sacrifice. The entire crew killed themselves once the building was complete. But that’s in high-school.
The first story that starts the 1st grade textbook is about a goat with three kids. The wolf comes and kills two of the kids while the mother is out (third kid hid too well). He then places their severed heads in the window, grinning, to make it look like they’re waiting for their mom. The grieving mother proceedes to invite the wolf to a feast (he’s family), which is actually a trap to burn him alive as revenge.
what are the names of the stories? They sound good
Some info on the first one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meșterul_Manole
I can only find the full text in the original Romanian or in Spanish.
The second one is The Goat and Her Three Kids, an adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats, but somehow much more grim. I can’t find a full translation, but the Wikipedia article tells the story in good detail. The story has been adapted into a horror movie in 2022.
I am once again reminded of Flowers for Algernon. I have not read it since 8th grade.
The Lottery and The Last Spin checking in
I, a high school English teacher, reread “A Good Man is Hard to Find” today. Shit hits different when you have your own kids.
[Cries in Watership Down]
The only thing I can think of is Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes, not the story, but the discussion from my classmates. They really wanted to lynch that kid for trying to steal a pocket book.
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” checking in.
Read that for the first time a couple months ago; it very much felt like where I’m at now with everything.
Poems also count, right?
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
