Wimmer-MythMetaphor

The myth of the abandoned children wailing wood is a sad story. It starts with when a wealthy man is very sick and asks his greedy brother to take care of his two children after he dies. The reason he asks the brother to do it is because the mother of the children is dead. The brother says that he will guard the children with his life and keep them safe for as long as possible. After the father is dead the children get all his money but the greedy brother wants the money. So the brother lures the children into the woods and leaves them there. After a couple days without food they die under a tree. Once the children were dead the brother thought he would get all the money from the children but he was wrong. The brother had nightmares, his farm burned down and he lost all his money. Months later alone and without money the brother died. The tree where the children died was then a very important place to the people in the town.

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For my project instead of the children being left alone and dying my modern recreation of this myth will be about little kids getting lost. Either in the store or running away from your parents in the park or the woods. The types of images I will need to shoot will be of littler kids, I was thinking of using my little sister. Their faces will have to show distress or sadness. I might even go to the store and take picture in the store with one of my sisters looking scared or distressed just to get my point across. I will also need to shoot some pictures of the woods with my sisters sitting under a tree cover in leaves because the robins covering the kids in the leaves is a significant part of the myth and the robins are the heros of the myth. I choose this to portray the myth this way because everyone should be able to relate to the feeling of loosing your parents somewhere or somehow in one point of their lives or another.