Day Twenty Eight

The title was a struggle for me too. I wanted a catchy one, but it's hard, so I'll probably just stick to a simple title. I want a title that appeals to me, because to me personally, the first thing that catches my eye is the title of the story, and then the cover. Here is the list of the titles that I've have suggested.

1. The Blue Heron, I thought of this title because it's the most simplest plus it's based off of the original title, "The Blue Bird."
2. The Princess and the Blue Heron, this title is probably the most traditional. There are plenty of titles out there that have something to do with two things. However, this title doesn't really appeal to me.
3. The Japanese Heron, I thought of this title because the story is basically about a bird, and it's in the Japanese heritage.
4. The Japanese Princess and the Blue Heron, I think this title will fit it very well. I might just use this title, because it tells about a princess, a blue heron, and it even tells about the culture that it's in, the Japanese culture.
5. Samurai Nobuo: The Japanese Blue Heron, I'd say that the idea of the story revolves around the samurai turning into a bird, so this title was dedicated to Samurai Nobuo in my story.

Looking at my titles, I would have to say that the last two would be the titles that I would mostly use for my titles. I like something original, but it's kind of hard making up an original title especially since it's just a short story. So, I'll just stick to something pretty simple. For children's books I like for a title to tell me about the story just by reading the title. Whereas if I was to transform this into a novel, I like titles that will probably make you want to know more about why the certain title was picked.

Another reason why this assignment was a little challengin is becuase I guess I can't beat the titles of original Japanese folktales. In Blog Day Eighteen, it was the blog that we had to find three other folktales in the culture that we picked, and I found three well-known Japanese tales. I thought that these tales had very interesting titles that tells about the story right when I read them. For example the title of the story of the old man actually translates into English, "the old man who made withered trees to flowers." Then when I read the story, there was a whole story behind as to why the title was chosen. Same goes for the story, "The Crane that Returned the Favor," because this story tells of why a crane returned a favor to good people. I probably can't think of something as creative as that, so until then, I'll just stick to a simple title.