Week 9 Reading Diary, continued: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India, Part B

Title: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India
Author: W. H. D. Rouse
Illustrator: W. Robinson
Year: 1897

Reading Part B
Birds of a Feather

This story was adorable.  The wild horses would hurt everyone, but they loved and were kind to each other.  I did not expect this ending.  I was pleasantly surprised.

Spend a Pound to Win a Penny

The monkey lost one pea, but in his greed and tunnel vision he didn't realize that many more had fallen out of his hands and mouth while he panicked for the one.  This is a good lesson on greed.

The Cunning Crane and the Crab

WOW.  I definitely did not see it ending this way.  A storytelling idea could be to write a different ending where the crane changed his ways and became a good crane!  Maybe even a vegetarian one...

Union is Strength

These stories do not have happy endings.  I am assuming they are to teach a lesson as they definitely don't have any happily ever afters.  This one in particular ends with a simple sentence saying the main characters were then taken home for dinner...

Silence is Golden

This reminds me of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  He wasn't exactly like the others so he was made fun of.  Unfortunately it doesn't have the happy ending like Rudolph did; it only ended in them making fun of him (how sad).

Silence is Golden (Gutenberg)

[skip: The Great Yellow King and his Porter]

The Quail and the Falcon

These stories really know how to end gruesome.  I have heard the final phrase before and I am curious if this story is where it came from.

[skip: Pride Must Have a Fall]

The Bold Beggar

The guy seems pretty stupid, but I guess you could say it is bold since he didn't get punished.

The Jackal Would A-Wooing Go

That lion girl is a jerk.  She did not even deserve to be proposed to by a jackal is she is going to be such a snooty snob.

The Lion and the Boar

I wonder if it is coincidence the similarity to The Boy Who Cried Wolf.  They questioned the boar at first, then they didn't believe him at all the second time.

The Goblin City

Wow again.  This story was ridiculous.  I have no idea what the learning point was here.

Lacknose

The lesson here is that honesty is the best policy.  That it is!  This would make a good pre-story for the old man losing his nose.

The King's Lesson

This was a great lesson in terms of being a good person.  I also liked that the "better" king still went out of his way to make the other king just as great.