This story, as well as the Man in the Moon, were my favorites from reading A. I chose to do this story because I feel I could take the story more in depth. I know a few people and even some friends of mine, that have had similar situations in which the father does not give his consent for the boy to be with his daughter. I have also heard many stories from my father about the old times growing up in Mexico where the boy would steal the girl away from her family and start a family of their own. In fact, my dad has told me that most of the couples around his age or older were only together because of this. I'd like to take this story and have the setting be in Mexico just because I could relate a little more to it and add certain details my father has told me about. I didn't like the ending about how they ended up dying jumping off a cliff together so for my story I would like for the couple to get away successfully and begin their new lives together.
(Lovers' Leap at Rock City Gardens in Tennessee: FineArtAmerica)
Bibliography:
Folklore of Laos by Katherine Neville Fleeson: link to Reading A
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