This week I chose to write over the Nursery Rhymes for the
week. What I found difficult was that I had so much liberty with retelling
nursery rhymes. There is so much that can be said about them and the hardest
part was that I could not pick just one to write about. Events do not just
occurs, it is a series of events that lead things to happen, a cause and effect
as they say. While reading through the nursery rhymes I could not help but
think of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. For some reason that seems to be the
nursery rhyme that has been imprinted the most in my mind, probably because of
the morbidity of it. This is not to say that Humpty Dumpty is not morbid, but
the concept of an egg cracking is so normal and such an every day task that it
us not concerning. Jack breaking his skull open, however, that grabs my
attention. There has always been a morbid curiosity about me. The dark side of
man is so much more interesting than the good because it is what drives the
dark that sparks my interest. It could very well be the medical side of me that
draws my attention to Jack’s injury, but who knows? What really sparked my
interest in writing this story was the big question: what caused Jack to fall
down that hill? He could not have just decided to jump off of it, something had
to cause him to fall and hurt himself. And because Jill did not hurt herself,
and she also came after him, I knew that she was probably running down there to
help him. So, what caused Jack to fall down that hill? There could have been
several reasons, he could have been spooked by Little Bo Peeps missing sheep
for instance, but I chose to have him pushed by Little Miss Muffet, It was an
interesting challenge to say the least, and most enjoyable.
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