Reading Notes: Brer Rabbit, Part B (EC)

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Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit (Wikimedia)

Reading Notes: Brer Rabbit, Part B

Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again:
  • Central focus on crops, to have land and crops meant a great deal in this time, so it was truly devastating for the characters to have lost all of their crops. Might be interesting to have Reynard get tricked into helping Brer Rabbit raise many more crops. 

Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear:
  • Interesting difference here where Bear is presented as a much less aware/high profile figure. In other stories he is Judge Bear or making statements to the community about how they should get along almost like a reverend. 
  • I like the knowledgeable, governing bear character better than this one who gets tricked, but this one might play better into a storybook with Reynard. 
  • Not sure what a goober patch is but I like the feel it gives to the story, the word itself lightens things up, could be good for Storybook or retelling. 
  • Apparently goobers are peanuts. 
  • Interesting ending to the story, not much too it. Great plot set up but not a lot of moral lesson or power to the ending. Could be cool to rewrite with a wise and judicious bear that avoids the trap or teaches a lesson at the end. 
  • Also could be interesting to rewrite this ending where the bear catches the rabbit; could explain why all rabbits now a days are so jumpy. 
  • I like the use of dialogue to drive the plot more than anything else. I think I am going to try this style of writing again in my next story. I think adding some descriptive imagery could also be useful to make the bear replacing the rabbit in the trap more meaningful and funny. This should be a great slapstick opportunity. 
  • I’m having enough difficulty reading the dialect I probably won’t try and replicate it, I might still try for the Huck Finn dialect though.

Bibliography
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).

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