I have never read Brer Rabbit before so I was not too sure
what to expect. The unique dialect is what really makes these folklore stories
stand out. When I read the description of the book, I expected the stories to
be very similar to Aesop’s Fables. Once I started reading the stories, I started
to realize that the only thing that Aesop’s Fables and Brer Rabbit have in
common is the use of animals as the main characters (at least in my opinion). I’ve
seen dialect in a few stories but I do not think I have ever read a story that
uses nothing but dialect throughout the whole story. I also listened to some of
the stories using Libriox. Listening to someone read the stories made them come
to life more than when I started reading the stories myself. While I was
listening, the voices that the people reading the stories used reminded me of
the crows in the movie Dumbo. The voices that were used in these stories were
also similar to the voices used in the To Kill a Mockingbird auto.
One
thing that I liked about this unit is the use of similes. These stories are
filled with southern similes and I absolutely love it. My grandparents and my
friends’ grandparents use similes similar to the ones used in this unit. I
guess those type of sayings are very unique and important in southern culture.
Overall,
I am on the fence about whether or not I really liked this unit. Overall, some
of the stories were entertaining but, the dialect was a little hard to listen
to.
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