Reading Notes(EC): The Golden Goose
The Golden Goose - More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt with illustrations by Ellsworth Young
This story can really teach a lot to someone. I think it had a really good message behind the story that people can learn from. What I took away from this story is that people do want to help but greed can ruin everything. No one should be so greedy especially if someone is helping you out, because of the greed the feather turned normal which had no selling value. The mother ruined it for herself
Starting: The story started in a tradition way ' Once upon a time..'. The main character was mentioned right away, which was the goose. There is not much background into but we do learn everything we need to know as the story goes on.
Story telling: This story was told in third person and the author also uses quotation marks to tell us exactly what the characters said.
Ending: The story ended right after the climax of the story, there was no unnecessary information added in the end.
Detail: In this story we do not get much detail about anything so it is just left to the imagination. We don't get description of anything such as the characters but it also worked for the story. We didn't need the details, the story was fine without it since it was a short story. We could just imagine a poor old lady.
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This story can really teach a lot to someone. I think it had a really good message behind the story that people can learn from. What I took away from this story is that people do want to help but greed can ruin everything. No one should be so greedy especially if someone is helping you out, because of the greed the feather turned normal which had no selling value. The mother ruined it for herself
Starting: The story started in a tradition way ' Once upon a time..'. The main character was mentioned right away, which was the goose. There is not much background into but we do learn everything we need to know as the story goes on.
Story telling: This story was told in third person and the author also uses quotation marks to tell us exactly what the characters said.
Ending: The story ended right after the climax of the story, there was no unnecessary information added in the end.
Detail: In this story we do not get much detail about anything so it is just left to the imagination. We don't get description of anything such as the characters but it also worked for the story. We didn't need the details, the story was fine without it since it was a short story. We could just imagine a poor old lady.
I am so glad you wanted to learn more about the jatakas, Pranali: wonderful! There are (literally) hundreds of them, all preserved from ancient India in the Pali language (which is related to Sanskrit). If you are interested in reading even more jatakas, that is one of the reading options later on in the semester too. And thank you for working ahead like this; it makes me feel really good to know that the instructions make sense and the links are working. :-)
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