Reading Notes: Tibetan Folk tales, Part B

While reading the beginning of the story, it is easy to imagine all of the animals interacting, but I am having to use my own imagination to picture the scenery around them. The rabbit was clever in getting rid of the tiger at the end. The second story did not have much detail for setting, but I imagined a pretty forest when the sister came to her brothers as a bird. How the Raven Saved the Hunter had a really sad ending. I wish the hunter would have considered why the raven was knocking the leaf cup out of his hand before acting so violently. The Golden Squash had a great moral to it's story, you should help people for their benefit not your own. 'Where bounding their country was one black sea' was a very beautiful sentence. I thought the author was very descriptive when describing the mountains becoming plains. The Two Little Cats contained my favorite ending from this unit. I was really surprised when the rabbit got revenge on all the other animals and the shepherd instead of just having his revenge on the bear who killed his mom. The final story's setting included many monkeys asleep in trees and that scene was very easy to imagine.

Image Information: Monkeys in a Tree, Web Source: Wikimedia Commons

Bibliography:  Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton, Web Source: Tibetan Folk Tales