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This is week 5's extra reading diary post. Feel free to ignore just like with all the others!
Crane could save the lion but does not trust the lion not to
eat him. Themes of no gratitude. Not how people should treat those who have
helped them.
A born miser. Begged all day for rice. At the end of the day
he made plans for something that might never happen. Making plans before
anything happened. Wishful thinking. Hateful to his wife (even though she is
imaginary) and ends up spilling all his rice (his dreams) all over himself.
Jealousy of a woman who holds a prized position in a family.
The wives plan a coup. They plan to sell her to someone in the woods so that
they can take her spot. The water that her sister-in-laws enchanted began to
drown her. After she died the man transformed her and stole her away. Transformed
into a fiddle. Gets revenge on her family who loses all her money. Her family
doesn’t even recognize her anymore, but she told her brothers of what she had
suffered at the hands of her sister-in-laws.
Circle of life. Lots of trickery. But the fish aren’t as
dumb as the crane was hoping. Oh just kidding they fall for it. So he just
massacres all of these fish one after another.
Another story where to save someone else and/or help them
they have to supplicate themselves to the possibility of being harmed in
return. “You are a fool to expect gratitude.” Tricked the lion back into the
cage. The end.
Very poor man who put his wife and children to work in an
effort to pay for their livelihood. Feels like he has been forgotten because no
one remembered to bring him food. Gets angry that he has been forgotten so he
decides he’s going to pretend to be magic. Steals a horse and is going to
premonition where it went. He becomes honored in the kingdom. Oh and then of
course something actually gets stolen and he has no powers to actually find it.
A misunderstanding allows him to actually find out who did it. More tests. Just
very lucky. Weird.
Father giving his son something to start out his life
with—to go on and make his fortune. Immediately spent a third of his money on a
dog. Not good with money. Oh immediately spends the rest of the money saving a
cat and then a dog. Turns out the snake was a rich man’s son and was given a ring
and his famous spoon and pot in exchange. The ring turned into a beautiful princess
and a house. He married her. Another prince fell in love with her and stole her
away. Te cat and dog went to get her back.
Ring in the stomach of the ogress. Tough situation. Cat
forced some rats into helping. Oh and they get it only to lose it to a fish
while fleeing. Because of jealousy between the cat and the dog. Cat doing a lot
of the work and the dog is jealous. So he insists to hold the ring. Lot of weird
jealousy issues. It all worked out though, so good.
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