Review: Not What I Expected
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2012
Some times they say that the best things you run across are those things that are unexpected. Although I can't say that this was a terrible short story, it wasn't my favorite either. I suppose part of my bias is in regards to the historic pretext that the poem "Ring Around the Rosie" is attributed to. Many scholars believe the poem was originally written to describe the symptoms of Bubonic Plague. Since most commoners couldn't write they put many historic events to song or in poetic form. Ring around the Rosie(rash and fever), pocket full of posies(flowers believed to ward off evil spirits), ashes, ashes(burning of bodies/ also in some songs A-choo, A-choo for the coughing/sneezing fits), we all fall down(death). The story is full of twists and a very unexpected ending, but don't go into the reading as I did thinking it was going to have a connection with the Bubonic Plague...it doesn't. For the price it is a worthy read if you want to look at this poem from a fresh, new perspective.