Journal #20 My Favorite Tall Tale

A tall tale is a story that is based on the life or adventure of a real person that gets exenterated to make them have supernatural powers or out of this world characteristics. Some of the most famous ones out there are the stories of Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan. I personally am not that much of a fan of tall tales anymore. I used to very in to them whenever I was younger and liked stories like that but, now if I do decide to read for fun, which is not very often, I like to read more revalent books that are more close to the stuff that I am going through in my life. The tale tales are just not as entertaining anymore because, I know that these people could really do the things they did or have the traits that hey supposedly had. One example of this is Paul Bunyan who was supposedly like twenty feet tall and had a giant blue ox. Someone could ever be twenty feet tall, and an ox could never be around ten feet tall like how they portrayed him in the tall tale. If I were to pick my favorite tall tale it would probably have to be Johnny Appleseed. He was a man who went around and planted apple seeds, all around the country. I am sure that how many he actually planted is not true, but I like that it is true that he went around and planted apple seeds. Looking back, Johnny Appleseed was not my favorite tall tale because, it was not as interesting as the other ones but, now it is a lot more interesting to me because, some of the story is believable. I think the big thing with tall tales and me now is that I like to read more of logical books, and tall tales are not very logical at all. In my younger years I liked the crazy stories but, now some of them are just plain silly.