Reaction to Charles Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine"
...f confused with some of the words, but I got better as I read on. In the beginning, as the colored man began telling the story about McAdoo, I felt like a little kid around a camp fire about to hear a scary story. I liked this feeling though ! I then began to connect my future profession into this. With a degree in elementary education, I work with young children all of the time. During school, I give my students time to have free write. Free write consists of the students writing in response to a question or even just about a weekend event. When the students write, they just write. They may use their writing folders for spelling questions, but I do not respond to their questions. They merely just write. Reading this folktale reminded me of this becuase of the spelling being written EXACTLY the way it sounds. I like this aspect of it a lot and it helped me because I have had so much experience with reading childrens "free write" work. When I finished the foldktale, I was a little disappointed. I almost wanted the couple to not buy the bewitched plantation and for the reader to be left wondering if it was really bewitched or if it was just a myth. But, buying the plantation for the sake of his wife's life also brought a little romance and love into the tale. Not to stereotype but that lured me into this story slightly more due to the sacrafice this man was willing to make fore his sick wife. Some may say that this is frustrating but I ...