Reading Notes: The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe, Part B

(Man that lives with Wolves.  BoredomTherapy.)

• Abandoned/'forgotten' child found by a wolf.
• She takes him in as her own, he grows up with 4 wolves and the mother.
• He learns the calls/language.
• A 'hunter' finds him and decides to bring him back home.
• Hunter = Prince; wolves chase after until they can't anymore.
• Ailbe becomes Bishop because he is adopted by the Prince.
• Grows older and remembers the wolves' language.
• Wolf-mother finds him, running away from hunters.
• They recognize each other.
• Bishop orders no one to harm them; they come feast with him everyday.

No matter what we look like or what/who we are, family is family.  This will be baseline synopsis for my version:

A pack of wolves try to find food.  They stumble upon a town, dig through rubble to find a boy left in it all.  Mother wolf much confused, decides to take him in; innocent and sweet, naive to the world, she will raise him as her own.

He becomes much like Tarzan or the boy from Junglebook.  Though not quite of age when he gets captured by the rich.  The Prince is a businessman.  Happens to be on a skiing trip and gets lost to only find the boy, about the age of 8-10 years old.  Finds the boy scrounging for food. 

Businessman thinks he's just playing around yet lost and tries to help him find his home, but realizes the boy can't speak so he decides to take him in.  The boy runs, doesn't manage to catch him, but notices he runs for a pack of wolves.  

The man is curious and wonders why wolves.  He heads back up to the mountaintop/ski lodge, still thinking of the boy.  Decides he will go teach the boy.

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

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.