Extra Reading: Brer Rabbit, Plantation Proverbs

illustration by Church & Moser
This story is part of the Brer Rabbit unit. Story source: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).

I really enjoy reading the Brer Rabbit stories. They add such a different tone that creates such a complicated image of the story. But it also makes the story difficult to understand at times. While this story made very little sense to me, I liked the structure of it where it looks like a proverb from the Bible. It looks like it is just providing useful information in each line. Information on how life should be on a plantation. 

I think that I could use a similar format of writing where I create rules and information on how to live in a certain society, such as one ruled by red pandas. I currently have a working story involving pandas and I think that I could use some elements form this story to make mine much better. 

With this kind of story, there seems to be very little in the way of a plot. Each sentence has its own message and they don't seem to build on each other. I think I would like to write a story, where each line leads into the next one way or another. 

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