Week 4 Story: The Nativity, as told by Marvin the Mule

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Everyone in the town of Jerusalem was going wild! Apparently, the king decreed a tax on all the people. My master was not very happy since he just had to take in this poor young woman and marry her. I didn't quite get all of the details, I just know that she is about to have a baby and was very lonely. My master is a very nice man!

Before I knew it, my master was packing up his bags and loading it on me and we were off. To where, I don't know. All I know is that the young woman is riding me while my master guides me.

A few days into our trip, the young woman told my master to stop in this town because she was about to have the baby. We quickly headed to town to find an inn. My master was very angry because there was no room anywhere! So we moved on only to find this stable. My master took us there and that's where the young woman bore the baby.

She wrapped him up and put him on my dinner plate! How rude! But it was hard to be mad when the baby was so cute.

All of a sudden, a mysterious glowing person with wings descended from the sky and told my master and the young woman that this baby was special and the "new king" (whatever that means) and needed to be named Jesus.

I didn't think much of it until herds of people came to see this baby. I had no idea my master was so popular! 

It started out as just a few people every once in awhile. But they all just kept coming! More and more of them came in big groups, each person leaving with tears and a smile, some even leaving feeling and looking better than before.  

They all came and praised the baby and everyone seemed so happy. I guess it was because he was just so cute.


(Painting of the Nativity from Bay Cities Animal Hospital)

Author's note: This story is not my original idea. I have adapted this from the book of Luke in the Bible. The modifications I made were the perspective of the story, which I told from a made-up mule.

Bibliography: The Nativity from the book of Luke from the King James Bible.

Comments

  1. radominicSeptember 27, 2020 at 12:55 AM

    Hello!
    I wanted to let you know your retelling was adorable. I like what you're doing with the narration of the story through the donkey's perspective. However, I would like to make a suggestion. Your donkey to have a name, and it needs to be introduced in the first paragraph. Or at least identify what or who your character is at the beginning. This helps the reader connect with the main character. Also, I'm getting the idea you are wanting to keep the identities of Mary and Joesph of secret, which I think isn't a bad idea. However, I would to suggest to consider having your donkey give them his nicknames. For example, have you seen the Disney movie, Lady and the Tramp? If you haven't, I totally recommend its a beautiful, sweet film, but ONLY the animated version is worth it. In the movie Lady, a female dog, refers to her owners by their own given pet names. The pet name given to the female owner by her husband is Darling. Then, the woman gave her husband the nickname Jim Dear.
    Every time Lady speaks about her owners to the other dogs, she says Jim Dear and Darling. Does this make sense?
    I hope this helps.

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  2. Sophie MartinOctober 1, 2020 at 12:52 PM

    Hi!
    I loved the way you told this story. I think you could a very different perspective from it and I loved how it turned out. I think it was cute how the character told it and almost was so curious on what was going on between the people. I think it shows such an innocent and different side to such a well known story.

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