What Of This Goldfish Do You Wish? By Etgar Keret

The story “What of this goldfish do you wish?,” Etgar Keret tells a story about a little boy named Yonatan. Keret’s story shares many similarities and differences with old Folktales. One Folktale is Loppi and Lappi from Estonia. Another folktale is “ the ridiculous wishes .”The third folktale is called “ The Three Wishes from The Brothers Grimm.” One similarity is the fact that in all of the stories, someone is given 3 wishes. Usually, the main character gets the 3 wishes. However, in Keret’s story, the wishes were given to another character. In the folktales, the characters accidentally wish for food. After that, the characters get in an argument and the husband’s wife ends up with her nose interacting with a type of sausage. In the