Saturday, September 26, 2015

Reading Diary B: West African Folktales

The link to this reading unit can be found here.

The Moon and Stars

  • Didn't expect a dragon to appear pretending to be Anansi
  • Kind of funny how the servant to the dragon was simply a chicken that would crow to warn him.
  • I like the throwing bones and dancing to the fiddle music parts toward the end
  • I was interested in seeing why the title was the moon and the stars as the majority of the story never hinted at it. But I enjoyed Kewku Tsin being able to create a plan and get him, his friends, and father to the heavens safely.
  • I also like how the ending ties it all together smoothly

  • How both the animals and the human man can speak and communicate simultaneously
  • The contrast between the beginning and middle of the plot: first the hunter wanted to save just the man and it turns out the man is who wants to end up doing him harm. The animals which he almost didn't want to save, only gave him good things
  • I think the story turned out how it should have. 
  • It could be interesting to flip flop the plot and have the ungrateful man be the good guy somehow
  • Another human-animal relationship
  • Interesting how the tiger had money to give
  • Again, I like how the ending ties it altogether and provides reason to real world things that we don't often think about. 
"Sun photo by Simon"
Source: MythFolklore UnTextbook

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