Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology

Notes for Goblin City: 

Captain: Observant, keen, discerning

he pretended to be asleep, and looked out of the corner of his eye.

Hollywood casting: Kurt Russell. I just really like Kurt Russell.

Fairy: Calculating, powerful, determined

and she determined to save the men

Hollywood casting: Eva Green. I image the fairy as a kind of General in war with the goblins. I think she'd play that role rather well.

She-Goblins: Hungry, hateful, unsympathetic, vile 

"Man’s meat, man’s meat, that’s what Goblins like to eat!"

Hollywood casting: A bunch of copies of Starla from Regular Show

Flying Horse: Laborious, generous

"Who wants to go home? Climb up, then!"

Hollywood casting:

Sailors: Eager, followers, distrusting

Some of them believed him, and some said he must have been dreaming

Hollywood casting: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin from On The Town

 

Setting: A quiet fishing village near a cold, mountainous region.

  

Bibliography: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W.H.D. Rouse

 

 

 Goblin Market illustrated by Arthur Rackham (image source: bl.uk)

This story reminded me of The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. This image is taken from a book of illustrations for her poems. This poem is the story of two sisters: Laura and Lizzie. Lizzie eats the river goblin's fruit, and begins to decline in health when she can't have more. The image shows her sister Laura attempting to buy fruit for her sister, but having no intention to eat it herself, the goblins swarm her and try to force her to eat it. Laura, covered with the juices and pulp of the fruit, returns to her sister who eats the pulp from her body. She eventually recovers.

“We must not look at goblin men,

We must not buy their fruits:

Who knows upon what soil they fed

Their hungry thirsty roots?”