Reading Diary B: Turkish Fairytales

This is one of my favorite stories from the second half of the Turkish Fairy Tales unit.

The Wizard and his Pupil: This story was one of my favorites mainly because it took a very odd twist that I was not expected. A boy spent time searching for where he actually wanted to be. He had run away from everywhere else and his mother had ran out of options. He decided to go with the wizard and he learned many things from the wizard. I feel that the boy got too cocky and I was sure that it was going to backfire against him. When his mother gave away the key when he turned himself into a bathing establishment, I thought that it might be the end of the boy. Then he was able to turn into many other things and when he turned into the millet pulp and the wizard turned into a cock and ate up all the millet pulp. I thought that the story would have been good to end there. The boy was cocky and the wizard got his revenge. The story took another twist and the wizard had missed one grain. The one grain was enough for the boy to return to his youthful self and he then killed the wizard. Good things happened for the boy but I did not think that the story should have gone like that. I still think that the wizard should have been the one victorious in the end but it did catch my attention by going in a direction that I was not expecting.

The wizard talking to the boy's mother from the Turkish Fairy Tale Unit