Homework: Look over the first lines of the Goblin Market assignment and draw what comes to your mind. After you finish, read the next section I chose and continue to draw what comes to your mind. Finally continue to read the final section that I chose and draw once again.
Since I already know what the poem is about it would be very bias for me to draw my own assignment. My roommate was willing to donate her time and do some extra homework (I had to bribe her with chocolate). I read to her the beginning of the poem until the part where it says “all ripe together in summer weather”. Since all she heard was the fruit being mentioned she drew tree full of fruit. She also remembered it being the summer time therefore there was a sun in the corner and the grass was really green (figure 1).
Secondly, I read to her the section that starts out “But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste… as she turned home alone.” For this picture she drew a lady who was blond and had curly hair thinking of fruit and particularly an apple (figure 2).
Finally, I ended the assignment by reading to her the section, “One may lead the horse to water… some vanished in the distance.” For this picture, she drew ghosts that seem to be attacking the blonde girl and even made her bleed. The girl seems to be crying (figure 3).
After this experiment I just conducted I realized that she did not once draw anything sexual. I read to her some of the most sexual parts of this story but she did not seem to catch on to them. I can see now how this poem was written for younger kids. I’m sure that if she read the whole poem she would catch on to how dirty the poem actually is but when I read to her bits and pieces she just assumed the poem was actually about fruit.
-Yuri Can
