A myth is a traditional story that has
been told from generations to generations.
It’s been so long that some stories, no one no longer knows
of it is true or not. Myths are what you normally heard from older people when
you are young and we children tend to believe that they are true. As we grow
up, we are most likely to tell the stories that we heard from when we are young
to our children too. In my country, most of the myths are kind of scary and
adults use the myths to teach and trick the kids to do good thing or listen to
them. It makes me feel dumb sometimes when I think about how I believe about it
back then when I was younger than this. Like, asking yourself, how can I
believe in that or how is the story even make sense.
But in the other hand, no matter how far the world has moved
on, myths are still, always in use.
For this week, I read Anansi Boys by
Neil Gaiman. It told to be fantasy novel. The story is about two brothers, son
of Anansi, the spider god. They had never met each other before until their dad
died and this is the beginning of the story. When Charlie met Spider, a lot of
things happened to his life it is not a good thing either. Spider seems to steal
everything from Charlie and the thing which I think is the worst is that he
stole Charlie’s fiancée, Rosie.
At first Neil Gaiman leads us to
the real place on earth and then he brings us to the world of myth. That makes the
reader slowly forgets about the real world when reading the story. I think the
important thing I learn from this story is you have to think carefully before
you make a wish or want something because you will never know if the thing you
wish for is going to come true or not and it might also possible that it may
cause your life to be good or bad.
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