Friends, Teasing, and Love.
For the second part of the reading of
The Giant Crab andOther Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse. I was supposed to read through
twelve stories, but one of the stories would not open, so I only got to read
eleven. I enjoyed the first story,
Birds of a Feather because of the final
lesson/poem that was at the end. There is a mean horse Chestnut that does not
get along with any of the other horses, and the king uses him to hurt other
horses to he can buy the bruised horses at a discounted price. But a horse
seller tries to use his mean horse Strongjaw to be mean to Chestnut so that he
will not hurt any of the other horses. But when the two horses meet they do not
fight but seem to become friends which is how the saying birds of a feather
flock together came into play. I think this story can relate and does relate to
humans. Like how two troubled teens may not be able to make friends with other
students at school but when they meet can become instant friends. This could be
a possible rewrite. The next story I thought I could rewrite was the story;
Silence is Golden. In the story a lion cub has a lion for a father and a jackal
for a mother. As the cub is growing up, he looks like a lion but has the voice
of a jackal. Becuase of this when the other lions hear the lion-jackal cub
attempting to roar they laugh and make fun of him. He learns that he cannot
talk to the other lions, but I am curious how the jackals would feel about the
lion-jackal cub. Since he looks like a lion and we can assume he has the power
of a lion and they might want to make him their leader. He could intimidate the
other animals and the lions. The last story I would like to change is the
ending to
The Jackal Would A-Wooing Go. In the story, a jackal has fallen in
love with a lioness. He gets the courage to go over to her den and ask her to
marry him. The lioness gets offended that the jackal even thinks he could marry
her because she comes from a higher status than him. Long story short to
protect her honor two of the lioness brothers die and then the jackal dies just
because the lioness thinks she is too good for the jackal. I think this story
could have a more Romeo and Juliet feel. Where the lioness is in love with the
jackal but she must hide it from her brother. The couple then decides that they
will have to sneak off in the middle of the day to try and escape her brothers. This story could turn into a happier romantic recreation.
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