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Reading Notes: Tibetan Folktales, Part B - A Rabbit Story

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A Rabbit Story So, since there is really only one main character in this story, I can't do the same character charting as I did with the last reading. Instead, let's look at the chain of events that led to the rabbit doing all these awful things to try and figure out how he ended up doing this. The old mother bear, jealous because the rabbit's mother was able to dig up more roots than her, killed the mother rabbit and took her body, along with the roots she'd gathered, to eat with her son. The rabbit has been waiting for his mother to come home, and when she doesn't, he goes over to the bear's house to see what's up. He sees the two of them eating his mother and freaks out (understandably) and vows revenge. He knows that it's the mother bear that has killed his own mother. One day, while the mother bear is out, the rabbit shoots a red-hot arrow into the baby bear's ear and kills him, fleeing and taking his mother's sack of roots with hi...

Reading Notes: Tibetan Folktales, Part A - The Two Devils

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The Two Devils Character Charting:  I will be listing the main characters of this story, as well as what seems to be the driving motivation behind their actions and the character trait that either allows them to succeed or fail by the end of the story (as in, do they die or not, because this story has a fair amount of death). The Seven Sons (excluding the youngest one, who ultimately survives) Motivation - desire, attraction Trait  - superficial (the brothers decide to make the woman they meet in the woods their wife, just because she is pretty, without taking even a second to get to know her, and subsequently six of them die by her hand) The Youngest Son Motivation - gratitude (also desire and attraction, because he also agrees to marry the she-devil, but once he is saved, he is grateful and wishes to reward the man who saves him) Trait  - luck? (he really only survives because of the fake fortune-teller, not because of anything he really did, so he wa...