Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology

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Tricksters: Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1912). Out of all the stories, the Trickster one about The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal was the only story that really pipped my interest to pay very close attention. Here are a few things that I found interesting about the story and just some thought on it: 

• It reminded me of the Tale of the scorpion and the frog. How the animal always falls back to its intended nature. That is a tale I have heard many times throughout so many books and thought it went along with this story. This has somewhat of that same message. When the tiger gets out he is like "What is preventing me from eating you... I am hungry". So, he used the brahman for his own gain and basically pointed out why he should not have trusted the tiger. 
• That not only can the brahman talk to animals but it can also talk to other objects like the papal-tree and the road. That made it very interesting to me that the story had it to where inanimate objects, it creates great imagery to the plot. 
• Also, on how the jackal outsmarted the tiger since the tiger is considered the top of the food chain. It shows to never underestimate the ones people consider to be on the bottom. The jackal did not rely on using dominance to make something fear him to get what he wanted. He used his brain, acted like he did not know the story until the tiger showed him thus getting locked back up. 
• One thing I would like to know is exactly how the tiger got put into the cage. Maybe by seeing this it could be seen why he lets the brahman leave to get answers that might save his life. It might also just show why he acts the way he does and deceives
  the brahman into letting him out. 
  

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