Week 7: Essay
This week I read the Chinese Fairy Tales unit. One of the stories that stood out to me was a story about a man and his seven daughters. This story was called
The Cave of the Beasts. What I found really interesting in this story was the relationship between the man and his daughters, and also the daughters' relationships. When the mans wife lets his daughters eat all of his duck eggs, the man gets very angry. He decides he wants to trick his daughters into traveling over the mountain to see their grandmother. Then, he would leave them to be eaten by wild animals. I thought this was so ridiculous. He was going to kill them over a few eggs. The older daughters knew what he was trying to do, so they did not go. What was the worst part was that the older sisters did not warn the younger sisters, so they went with their father. Then the father decided he missed the girls so he went to go find them. They forgave him automatically and they all lived happily ever after. I thought this was a really weird and different way to portray a father daughter relationship. It was a lot different than most of the stories I have read for this class.
A story that was totally different from this was
The Maiden who was Stolen Away. This story was about a woman being taken away by a flying ogre, and her brother has to come rescue her. This story is what one intends to read when it comes to a story about family. Compared to the first story, this story was happier and the brother saved the day!
I read this unit this week as well, but I only managed to read half of it. I must have read another story somewhere that is similar to The Cave of the Beasts or read a storybook about it or something because I know the story, but just a little bit different than what you described, and it wasn't in the half that I read... Either way, I thought that The Maiden Who Was Stolen Away was much happier and I did like it a lot!
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