Thursday, February 19, 2015

Extra Reading Diary: Chinese Fairy Tales

For my extra reading diary this week I chose to read stories from Folklore of Laos. I pretty much just randomly picked this unit!

A Child of The Woods: I like how this story was written in first person. It's a big change from the other stories I was read thus far. This story is about a princess who flees into the woods. She falls asleep only to wake up to the breath of a tiger near her neck. The tiger watched her sleep and the princess laid unafraid. When she awoke she left without the tiger by her side and continued throughout the forest. Every night in the woods the tiger sat by her side and guarded her. When she no longer felt hate for the people in her village she returned.

The Mountain Spirits and the Stone Mortars: Again, I like this story because of spirits who lived in the mountain.The spirit of the mountain become angry when the people of the village below to not accept their boulders with gratitude. The village people had two options, pay for the heavy boulders or find away to return them to the mountain. They had no choice but to pay for them. That is why now, there are random boulders in the valley of the village. I really like stories like this that make up the origin of something like rocks from the Earth.

Plain of Jars
(Trip Advisor)


All in all I really liked this unit! The stories kept a more interesting pace and I really liked all of the origin stories.

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