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| Golden Goose Source: Storyberries |
- The story is about a goose who has golden feathers. One day, the goose sees a very poor woman and her two daughters. The goose feels bad for the women, and out of pity decides to visit them and give them one of his feathers so they can sell and live comfortably. The goose went to the family and told him what he would do. They sold his feather and lived comfortably. Every once and while, the goose would come back, each time leaving another feather for the family to sell. One day, the mother had an irrational thought that the goose would not come back, so she decided that the next time he came back, she would take all his feathers. What the woman did not know was that if the feathers were plucked instead of simply lost, they would turn white and have no value. She plucked the feather, learned this. When the goose finally gained enough feathers back to fly away, he flew away and never came back.
- My ideas:
- This story was a typical story of greed, but is is so true about what happens. I have several ideas of ways I could retell this story.
- First, I could set it in modern time, and maybe make the characters human. This story would be very relavent and would still contain the life lesson about greed.
- Second, I could put the story directly in the goose's point of view and also change the ending to where the daughters stop their mother and the goose continues to provide for the girls.
- Another idea would be to make the goose an undercover god. In this version of the story I would let the family stay thankful and would eventually let the god reveal himself and give the family an ultimate reward.
- Overall, there are a lot of ways to retell this. Ultimately, I want to keep the same message about greed.
- Bibliography: "The Golden Goose" from More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbit.
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