This story is part of the Tejas Legends unit. Story source: When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends retold by Florence Stratton and illustrated by Berniece Burrough (1936).
For my reading strategy I wanted to focus on a specific character of the story, the rainbow. I really enjoyed this story because it was so sweet and the way the author paid attention to detail made the story so visual. In summary, the rainbow brings color to whatever it touches and the poor cactus flowers never touch the rainbow because of its thorns. However one day when the rainbow was glimmering through the mist and rainy clouds its ends started to head for the cactus flowers. The rainbow tried to pull itself up but couldn't because its ends were too heavy. Finally the cactus flowers got color.
I think the rainbow in this story is such a great character because it's somewhat relatable. Some of us like to stick to what we know best and not venture out to new things. When the rainbow tried to avoid the cactus flowers, it was all out of fear of maybe being hurt. I loved how beautiful this story was and how it tells us how flowers came to have color.
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