Monday, October 5, 2015

Reading Diary B: Tibetan Folk Tales

The remainder of the Tibetan Folk Tales unit was interesting.  I noticed a trend to all the stories, which was that some character in the story always died! Sometimes it was the villain and sometimes it was the main character. 

There didn’t seem to be any honest morals to the story that could transfer to real life.  With many of the stories, the person who committed villainous deeds was actually the one who benefited the most from his actions.  In How the Wolf, the Fox and the Rabbit Committed a Crime, this was exactly what happened.  The three characters stole a man’s things and divided the profits between them.  The rabbit divided the goods, giving the wolf the heavy boots that got him killed and the rabbit a bell that seriously frightened his children, while the rabbit got food!

While these stories were great, they definitely won’t work for my storybook.  I didn’t even find any general ideas that could transfer, although that may be because the stories were so short.  

Rabbit. Source: Pixabay

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