Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Week 6 Reading Diary A: Bengal Fairy Tales First Half

From the Un-Textbook: Folktales of Bengal

Thoughts and Favorite Unit:


  • The Evil Eye of Sani
    • I found it interesting what evil was bestowed upon Sribatsa and how the good came to him (gold dung from a cow).
    • This story reminds me that in order to get something you want, you must work hard and earn it. Sort of like in a company where you have to work your way up the ladder.
  • The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled
    • Maybe the seven queens weren't the ones barren..maybe they couldn't bare a child because of him. Humph.
    • This story is weird..not my favorite one.
  • The Origin of Opium
    • This story reminds me of the children's book If you give a Mouse a Cookie
    • The mouse is given speech by the Rishi and from there the mouse continues to ask to be turned into some sort of animal. He discovers that each animal has to worry about something 
    • Definitely a story of Karma (the mouse ends up dying)
    • I think the title to this story is very fitting since the mouse always wishing to be turned into something better parallels with drugs making the abuser always wanting more.
    • This is probably my favorite story of the three.

Cute mouse searching for some luck (maybe not so lucky though). Source: Pixabay


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