Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology

 This reading was a good opening story to go with because it shows the importance of personification in some stories:

- this story allowing any animals and object to talk opened up more clarity to the situation

- repetition, native jargon, and expressive adjectives are good in writing as needed

- any character, no matter when introduced can have immense importance

- giving the audience a clear protagonist, antagonist, and hero helps capture the audience, as I was sitting here reading and rooting for the Brahman and happy that he had a hero in the jackal 

- backstory is not always needed, if the story has a good hook

- the clear outline of this story was an individual helping another, getting betrayed by whom he helped, then having an outside party make it all right again

The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackal illustrated by John D. Batten

Source: Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912)

 Tricksters: Tiger, Brahman, and Jackal

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