Question

character sketch of oona in the story oona and the giant cuhullin. need the answer urgently... have an exam tommorow

Answer 1

With an entertaining, rollicking narrative, Jessica Souhami's Mrs. McCool and the Giant Cuhullin: An Irish Tale would be perfect as a read-aloud (I could well imagine this being a fun and popular story-time selection at a library). A very much humorous tale, quite theatrical in and of itself, especially Oona's ingenuity and cleverness are both enchanting and also empowering. And for me, the presented and adapted narrative of Mrs. McCool and the Giant Cuhullin: An Irish Tale actually also demonstrates author/illustrator Jessica Souhami's background as a member of a traveling puppet show, as it almost seems and feels as though an oral storyteller is right there on the page with us. As for the accompanying illustrations, although the collages are inded bright and colourful, they are not all that much to my personal taste. While I think that they are engagingly expressive and generally work well enough with the narrative as it is presented, I do find some of them just a bit too in-your-face, and most of the depictions of Cuhullin are really rather creepy, especially his overly large teeth.

The informative author's note is excellent and much appreciated, although the academic and folklorist in me definitely would have preferred to also have had a separate bibliography, with the actual and full sourced titles of especially William Carleton's and Joespeh Jacobs' versions of the Cuhullin and Finn McCool tales presented. Short, but to the point, the author's note seems to cover all or at least most bases of and for needed and required background information (namely that the traditional Irish heroes Cuhullin and Finn McCool could and would, in fact, never have met, that this here tale is in fact a parody, and likely originally from the 16th century, and that Mrs. McCool and the Giant Cuhullin: An Irish Tale is a combination, basically a loose adaptation of William Carleton's and Jospeh Jacobs' versions of the same)