Reading Notes: Brer Rabbit, Part A



"Brer Fox Tackles Brer Tarrypin", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris. Web source: Wikimedia Commons.


Here are my notes on the first part of the Brer Rabbit reading unit.


Brer Rabbit: The Calamus Root

Brer Fox is chasing Brer Rabbit. Fox wants to tell something to Rabbit, who hurries Fox to say what is up. Brer Fox said that he spoke with Brer Bear recently, who was upset that Fox and Rabbit were not getting along and being neighborly.

Brer Rabbit thinks about this for a minute and then says that Fox can come have dinner at Rabbit's home with his wife and kids.

The next day, Brer Rabbit and Mrs. Rabbit steal some vegetables from a garden...Probably not the best choice, but what are you going to do when you have a guest coming for dinner?

Back at the Rabbit home, all of the children get very excited because they see Brer Fox coming...supposedly.

Brer Rabbit and Mrs. Rabbit make the kids sit down while they wait for their guest to arrive. Except, he doesn't arrive.

- As a reader I am now starting to question whether or not Rabbit is realizing that something is up and he has been tricked by the Fox.

Rabbit opens the door and sees just a bit of Fox's tail, so he shuts the door. The next day the Fox says that he is sick and asks if Rabbit can bring him dinner. So basically the Fox is pretending to be sick in order to catch the Rabbit, but Rabbit gets away from him. The Fox is not happy and the stories go on from there.


Bibliography:

Brer Rabbit: The Calamus Root  from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris. Web source: the UN-Textbook. 

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