Weekend at Court's: Reading Notes: Turkish Folktales and Fairy Tales, Part B

After reading the second half of the various Turkish folktales and fairy tales I still feel the same when I say that these stories at times feel unfinished. I think that I could take bits and pieces of each story to make it my own but taking certain things that stood out to me in one story might not be enough.
The first fairy tale of the second half, The Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife seemed like a good and interesting story that could be useful. For instance, I enjoyed the thrill that the bird brought when saying that her kismet (fate) lied with a dead person. It was an inescapable part that kept my attention and fell into the kind of reading I like. Near the end of the story there was a moment of truth of the whole situation that cleared the air so that the main character could live happily ever after. Those points in a story are very helpful to make it go together smoothly; it gives the story and overall meaning/lesson that the audience can leave with. I feel that I could take pieces from this story and possibly incorporate it in with the story I will tell Wednesday.
The other fairy tale that stood out to me in the second half was, The Wizard and his Pupil. It reminded me of a situation where I could base the story off of Darwin’s natural selection theory. Or better known as, survival of the fittest. If I write a story based on this one, I already know that the similarities will be easily spotted by the audience since that is what the whole story pretty much entails.
Like I said before in my previous post, this week’s story already seems like a hard assignment to tackle. I feel like I picked a poor story to go off of making it difficult for me to decide how this will all go. Luckily, I have several ideas of what I will write about!