Reading Notes: Tibetan Folk Tales

For week nine I decided to read from the Asian unit and more specifically the Tibetan Folk Tales. I really enjoyed these stories and the two that stood out to me the most were, “The tiger and the Frog” and “Covetousness.” The first thing that caught my attention in the tiger and the Frog story was the image. The Image has an Asian feel/design and it complements this story really well. In my own story I want to have an image that has Asian inspired design. Further, I like how the story was structured. In my own story I want to incorporate structure features like “Once Upon a Time” and the use of dialogue between my characters. I like how this story used animals as the characters, but in my story I think I’m going to make my characters human and have my story take place in modern time. I like how the frog is very clever and even though he is small he uses his mind to get out of sticky situations. The tiger on the other hand is big and strong and could easily kill the frog but he is easily manipulated.

The tiger and the frog.