Reading Notes: Saint Kentigern and the Robin, Part A

(A Robin.  Flickr.)

• Saint Servan:  'Father'/Teacher of all, highest power
• Saint Kentigern:  praised student, favorite of Saint Servan
• All the other boys want Saint Servan to be angry w/Kentigern
• They bully him.  
• Tried to prove that he was not trustworthy.
• Killed Saint's Robin to show that Kentigern did it and was a bad kid.
• The Robin comes back to life after Kentigern prays.

How should I transform each character and story line?

Rather than being a part of the church, this can be a family household.  Not just a father but there is also a mother.  Three boys that are brothers, one is praised the most for being good, while the others are mischievous. 

Not the fireplace, but laundry and dishes as chores.  The Robin is their pet as well as a cat.  They can surely speak in the end.  The cat is a witness to the boys killing the Robin.

They don't snap his head off, something else happens.....

This can all change as I write.  The cat could even be the one that kills the bird.  The cat may not be theirs, but a stray.

Maybe not a family, but in school.  Grade school, second grade with a teacher and he does not pick favorites but acts as if so.  The occurrences of bullying can happen during recess or in the cafeteria during lunch.

Tie the story into another with flow.

Bibliography:  Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown, link to reading.