Reading Diary B [Heroes]

Lodge Boy and Thrown Away:

• Oh wow, so much gore in the first paragraph. This red woman is wicked. 
• I think its sad they call themselves after how the red woman left them. 
• The resurrect they mother. 
• Why does the father keep telling them to no go places knowing that the boys will disobey by not listening to him? Regardless, each time they do, they bring their parents back something.
• This story is seriously messed up. I sort of wish they took care of the red woman.

Cree man

The Jealous Father:

• Incestuous relationships. Wait, it is the step mother. Doesn't really make things better. 
• The jealous father deserts him. The boy finds his way back with the help of a walrus. The walrus ultimately died when the boy lied to him about thunder. 
• The powers of a mother's love.
• The blind hags ended up killing each other. 
• The boy found himself back home and killed his father. 
• Then he told his mom they should be birds.

Dirty Boy:

• Two daughters of a chief denied all of their suitors in marriage. Their father desperate to marry them off decided to hold a contest for their hand. The man who was able to shoot an eagle off ta perch would marry them (two shots). 
• Sun and Star disguised themselves as a dirty grandmother and a dirty boy. [Sun was the dirty boy and the grandma was star.]
• Sun shot the eagle off the perch but naysayers claimed the boy was not good enough for the women. The chief agreed and held another contest where the winner would get both daughters.
• The contest consisted of catching two fishers, one light and one dark. 
• The dirty boy caught the fishers and was able to marry the daughters. 
• The older daughter ended up marrying another while the younger daughter married dirty boy. 
• She stayed faithful to her new husband and star told his sister he wanted to tell her the truth. 
• Star became beautiful and Sun was handsome. He gave his wife a kettle, pushed her head inside the kettle so she could have stars on her body and he told her to pour the rest of the liquid out and it made a pathway to her father's house.