Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology

 The story that intrigued me the most was "The Man on The Moon". Right after I read the title I was reminded of an old John Lewis Christmas commercial that was about a man on the Moon. However, these two stories told very different stories. 

"The Man on The Moon" focuses on a blacksmith that is not content with who he is. Throughout the story he is always wanting to be something else. A wise man herd his pleas and turned the blacksmith into a stone where it would be cool and windy, because it was too hot being a blacksmith. Eventually the man became tired of being a rock after a stone cutter began to cut him. The man requested he be a stone cutter and he was turned into one. Eventually the man became tired with who he was and asked to be the Sun. The wise man complied and turned him into the Sun. After being the Sun the man realized it was way too hot and asked to be the Moon. Being the Moon was not what the man thought it would be like and did not like how the Sun shone on him all the time. However, the wise man would not change him again, and the man was stuck being the Moon. 

I believe the author of this story was warning the reader of indecisiveness. 

Photo from Origin Stories: The Moon