For this weeks storytelling I chose to read the Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton. I liked that each story was different and included both
magic and animals! The story of The Tiger
and the Frog was really funny because the little frog was able to use his
words in a clever way to scare the tiger. I also liked imagining the tiger
tying his tail to the foxes… the picture in my head is absolutely ridiculous. I
also liked The Story of the Donkey and
the Rock because the king was so cunning. At first I was really confused as
to why the king decided to put the donkey and the rock in jail… I thought he
was crazy! It was clever how he turned it on the people and ended up using the
money he collected from them to give to the poor man who lost his oil. It could
be interesting to do a story of how the man uses his money once it is returned.
The Man and the Ghost was very
interesting… I didn’t understand why the man was so afraid of the ghost if the
ghost was being so nice to him? It almost seemed like the ghost was trying to
scare him away by bringing him the boy’s soul and leaving it. I think it would
be interesting to write a story on the ghost coming back and being angry that
the man had set the soul free! In The
Story of the Two Devils I kept seeing a theme of deceit… first the woman
turned out to be a she-devil, then the yak was truly a he-devil, and finally
the man who claimed he was a fortune-teller couldn’t actually see the future. I
also really liked the description of what the he-devil and she-devil looked
like once they were in their true form. The description was so vivid!
(Illustration of Tibetan man by Mildred Bryant
Source: UnTextbook)
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