Story Week 11: Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La

The Dream of Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La

She wakes up with a jolt. Confused and processing, she makes her way out of bed and downstairs. Thinking to herself, what just happened. Knowing she could think clearer with a cup of coffee, she starts the Keurig. As it grumbles, her roommate walks in, chirpy and excited for the day. "Hey, Jordan. Oh my god. I just had the strangest dream." 

Jordan, one never to miss a chance to hear a story, sat down at the table and replied, "Well, are you going to tell me about it? Is it about that guy you have been texting?"

"No. No, not at all. Let me fix this coffee first, so I can think." 

When she had finished, her coffee, she joined Jordan and said, "Ok, I am ready. It was so weird. I was little again playing with my brother in our backyard. You know at my house how we have that big lot behind our fence with all those trees? We were back there and there was a boulder. Never have I seen it before in my life. We played till we passed out on the boulder." 

Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La or El' Captain, the rock this story is about

Jordan interjected, "Your mom would have never let that happen." 

"Yeah, I know, but that's not how the dream goes. So I wake up from a nap inside of my dream, on the moon. Trippy, huh? My brother is still there. While we were asleep The boulder grew until it was nearly touching the moon. I don't know how we were breathing. So five-year-old me starts freaking out. I can't get home."

"That's when you wake up right?"

"No, then the animals gather below. I don't know how I can see them, but I can, and they meet in like a council to figure out how to get us down. First, the rat and the mouse jumped up and tried to get up the wall, but they barely got off the ground. Then, the grizzly bear jumped. He got higher than I thought he would but did not make it over the boulder. Finally, the lion tried and despite getting the farthest up the boulder, he didn't make it up."

Jordan looked at me confused, " So, then you woke up, right?" 

"Not yet. Then, my brother started crying because we thought we were going to be stuck up there. But the inchworm said, 'Never Fear,' and started crawling up the side of the boulder. He made it all the way to use and yelled 'jump on my back! My name is Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La' and I can help you!' I had nothing to lose, so I did. My brother took a little bit more convincing, but he got also got on the inchworms back. Then the inchworm carried us down the boulder." 

"An inchworm?

"I said it was a dream, didn't I? He got us all the way down and walk us home. When I walked in my backdoor, that's when I woke up" 

"Ok yeah. That is a strange dream."

Author's Note Legend of Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La (El Capitan)

This is based after the Legend of Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La. I kept the story mostly the same but I changed the narrator. I wanted to use mostly dialogue so I thought about recent conversations I have had that this would work in. I chose a conversation between me and my roommate early in the morning because the dynamic is fun, it's unlike anything I have written, and I like the change in perspective. I felt as if the change in perspective made the story a little bit more interesting because imagine if you were taking a nap and woke up on the moon. It would be something you told people. 

Famous Last Words

A Note to Myself

Last semester I was surviving learning how to handle a really demanding job with a lot fo hours and my class load. This semester I have gotten that down better, but I still never said no to anything. SO when my work schedule decreases, I said yes to more involvement, never getting more sleep. Then, if I ever have a slightly easy day, I think about applying for more. I really need to change this behavior of mine because I am completely aware of how foolish it is. 

The reading for this class has been going well. I have not loved the content because the stories are kinda repetitive and there is not a lot of character development. However, I got through it and enjoyed some of them so it is good.

I really like my writing for my story in the storybook this week. I liked how I gave women power despite my main characters being men. 

Cleopatra- a character in my story

My other classes are going well this week. I am in my capstone and it is just so much reading. So, I am just trying to get through it. Once I do, it's not bad. The subject matter isn't too difficult, just way too much. 

I tried to enroll on Monday for this last time. It was so sad. I am graduating early so it is really sad to think that this is my last semester with my friends and on campus. There are still things I want to do! Then, I also had issues because my major sent out times for classes but then the times for the enrollment were different. It really screwed up my schedule and I might not be able to get a specific minor I really want now. I really hope they figure out which time it is. 

Reading A: Week 11

 Southwestern and California Legends unit

The Creation of the Great World

In the beginning, there was nothing, only darkness. SO the Earth Dcotor made the earth by using dust he fashioned. H grew the trees and plants on the earth. Made the sun, then ice. Then the moon and the sea. Then so it wasn't lonely, blew into the sky a bunch of stars to fill the sky. 

Spider's Creation

The spider was the first animal. He placed parcels with life in them and set it free. All the animals left out of them. The first women were the first mothers. He separated the people into clans. Then they all made the sun. The two mothers created the star people.

The Brightest Star

The Fable of the Animals

Kareya created the world. man last. Everyone was equal until he made man the leader and everyone else rank underneath. He decided rank with bow and arrow so coyote wanted to get there first and tried to stay awake all night. Then he fell asleep with his eyes pinned together. Every animal got there before him but the man felt sorry and made him more cunning.