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