Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology
Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology
Three Roses
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Three Roses
Story source: The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922).
- Mom has three daughters and two of the three request many things as the one daughter only request 3 roses.
- Mom gets lost at night, sees roses and suddenly remembers her one daughter once roses
- Mom exchanges daughter for roses
- Basilisk makes her nurse him and then makes her cut his head off
- She cuts head off and Basilisk transforms into 'beautiful youth' and makes her marry him
The Lion
The Lion's Share
- Lion makes animals attack but takes all the meat and the fox is mad
Androcles and The Lion
- Androcles is an escaped slave that sees the lion with a hurt paw
- Lion brings him to the cave and gives him meat
- They're captured and Androcles is throw to be eaten by the lion
- Lion starts to attack and realizes it's A
- King is impressed and lets them go
- Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
The Lion and The Statue
- Lion and man comparing strength
- Man show lion statue of Hercules killing the lion and lion responds by saying the man made the sculpture
- We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
The Lion in Love
- Lion removes claws and teeth to show his love to this girls parents and girl laughs in his face.
- Love can tame the wildest.
Tricksters: Tiger, Brahman, and Jackal
Story source: Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
- Tiger tricks Brahman into letting him out of the cage
- In return for his life Brahman searches for something to give the tiger
- No one feels bad for him and then he runs into Jackal
- Jackal is so confused by the situation and asks to go to the scene of the crime
- T and B keep repeating the story to J and T gets mad and J asks him how to go in the cage
- J tricks T into going in the cage and J slams the door shut and locks him back up
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