https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc Between a woman and a Man by James Thurber en-us 2016-11-15 19:51:31 UTC 2023-05-01 22:23:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137901669 One morning  a man saw a unicorn eating flowers in his garden. He roused his wife to tell her about the beast, but she told him that he was a booby and that she was going to have him put in a booby-hatch. The man never liked that words. As soon as the man had gone out of the house the woman called the police and the psychiatrist and told them that her husband had seen a unicorn. The men thought instead that the woman was crazy and got her into a strait-jacket; right in that moment the man walked into the house and the psychiatrist asked him whether he had seen the unicorn or not and he answered that the unicorn is a mythical beat and of course he had not seen it. The police and the psychiatrist then took the woman away and the man lived happily ever after]]> 2016-11-15 20:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137901669 dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137908750 James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894-November 2,1961) was an American author who was born in Ohio.
Both of his parents influenced his work. His father was an employed clerk and minor politician; his mother was a joker. He had two brothers.
He became well known for his drawings and cartoons.
Thurber wrote more than 75 fables.
These were short stories that featured anthropomorphic animals as main characters, and ended with a moral as a tagline.  An exception to this format was his most famous fable, The Unicorn in the Garden, which featured an all-human cast except for the unicorn, which doesn't speak.]]> 2016-11-15 20:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137908750 dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137914783 2016-11-15 21:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137914783 dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137916082 2016-11-15 21:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/137916082 dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/138255283 The Unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a large, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance it was described as a wild creature, a symbol of purity, which could only be captured by a virgin.
Its horn was said to have the power to heal sickness.]]> 2016-11-16 20:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/138255283 dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/138260958 2016-11-16 21:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/138260958 dianafulga36 https://padlet.com/dianafulga36/8ppjs7ic09rc/wish/138261254 Even if I am not a fan of fantasy stories I enjoyed reading this one, beacause there were a lot of realistic elements.
In fact I don't understand anything when I read fanstasy stories but this one really caught me.
The surprise ending is really satisfying, because I thought that the man would be sent in a booby hatch, but at the end the woman was.

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