There were so many good stories to choose from in the European Unit, but the Russian Folktales caught my eye pretty quickly and I wanted to read them, since I have never heard any of these tales before. I really enjoyed each and every one of the readings!
One of my favorite stories, however, was "The Bad Wife". The story is about a wife who is terrible to her husband. She constantly gripes at him, doesn't think he deserves anything good and did anything and everything to get on his nerves. The husband just kind of put up with her anger and let her do her own thing. The husband, however, caught on pretty quickly that his wife would just do the exact opposite of what he said, and used this to his advantage. He would tell her to not cook him pancakes, because "he didn't deserve them", and the wife would cook him pancakes because she thought that she was defying him.He would tell her to not go out and cut the hay, and once again, she would do it because she thought that it would make him mad. Even though it sometimes worked to his advantage, he was still upset that he had a wife that hated him so much. He was very frustrated at the fact that she wouldn't just do something he asked, and decided to go out and pick berries. On his walk, he decided that he was ready to get rid of the wife who hated him so much. He returned home and told her to not go out in the woods to pick berries, so she did. He tricked her into going into a pit and left her there for eternity.
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