Bibliography: Brer Rabbit I by Joel Chandler Harris
Caption: Brer Rabbit (Left), Brer Fox (Right)
Notes:
Main Characters: Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and other Brer (insert animal name)
The Britannica Encyclopedia says brer is actually just a contraction for brother. Link.
The Oxford Dictionary online says the same. Link.
Since this folktale story collection is written in a "speak as you would read" dialect, a good story based upon these stories could be written with the same speech. Also, since most of the stories either mention or include Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox, a good story could be safely written with them as the main characters. It would not be too far fetched to add in a new Brer character like Brer Bear (this is what Disney did in their movie Song of the South).
For this particular story, it would not be very hard to think up a plot, but it would be difficult to pick up the dialect in word form.
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