Reading Notes "The Man in the Moon" Part B

The Man in the Moon  by Katherine Neville Fleeson

This story was very interesting to me. It started off with someone complaining about being a blacksmith and they wanted to do something else. Then when he gets changed into the stone he doesn't like that because it hurts him when he is cut. It keeps going on and on because he can't decide what life he wants until he chooses the moon because he thinks it looks cool. He finds out that it is a really hot place then begs to be changed into the very first thing he was but is not allowed to. There is a strong message behind this story in my eyes. It's what makes the story great because it's saying that what you are in the first thing might be the thing you like the most and don't think other things are better just by looking at them.

The man is still stuck as the Moon. Source

I like how it didn't say that the wise man was God but he was just a person who controlled everything. I think that adds more description in what the man can do as well. Whenever the blacksmith ask to be changed the wise man did it right away without asking any questions because he wanted to be something else. However, when the blacksmith wanted to go back to his first life the wise man stopped him because he said he was tired of changing him. I think the wise man stopped him from changing because he was trying to teach the blacksmith a lesson in saying that don't take what you have for granted no matter how enticing other things look in your life. What you might be doing or the life you may be living might be the one for you.


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