For Reading Diary B, I will be continuing my thoughts on Twenty-Two Goblins. Here are the stories I chose for the second half of the unit.
The first story I read was the Snake's Poison. A man loses his wife, and thinks if he gives everything to the Brahmans and searches the countryside, he'll eventually find her. He stumbles upon a house where a kind woman gives him food. He sets the food under a tree and goes to wash up. While he's doing this, a hawk kills a snake which drops poison in his food. After eating the food, the man goes to the kind woman and tells her to get a doctor or she will be a murderer. He eventually dies and the goblin asks the king who was to blame? The king says the dead man is to blame for he accused one of the virtuous people of killing him. Then the goblin runs back to the tree.
Now at the end of every story, the goblin runs back to the tree. That's gotta be super frustrating for the king, having to walk back and carry him every single time. But that's just me musing over the situation.
Did the thief weep or laugh when he saw the merchant's daughter approaching him at the stake? This is the question posed by the goblin in the Girl and the Thief. A merchant has a beautiful daughter, and everyone pines for her hand in marriage, but she hates the idea. Eventually a thief ravages all the cities. He amasses much gold and jewels.
The king tries to go find him, and eventually does. He takes his army to the thief's place and the thief just goes bonkers on an entire army. But the king wrestles him down and takes him to the city alive. Of course, the merchant's daughter falls madly in love with the thief. To summarize, because this is getting lengthy, the daughter asks Shiva for two things: for her father to have a hundred sons for when she kills herself, and to bring the thief back as an honest man. Shiva grants both, and they get married and yadda yadda. The king then answers the goblins question thusly: the thief wept from grief for he couldn't repay the merchant's kindness and laughed from astonishment because the girl chose him over kings. Then the goblin goes back to the tree AGAIN. What did I take away from this story? Women are unpredictable! Haha.
The first story I read was the Snake's Poison. A man loses his wife, and thinks if he gives everything to the Brahmans and searches the countryside, he'll eventually find her. He stumbles upon a house where a kind woman gives him food. He sets the food under a tree and goes to wash up. While he's doing this, a hawk kills a snake which drops poison in his food. After eating the food, the man goes to the kind woman and tells her to get a doctor or she will be a murderer. He eventually dies and the goblin asks the king who was to blame? The king says the dead man is to blame for he accused one of the virtuous people of killing him. Then the goblin runs back to the tree.
Now at the end of every story, the goblin runs back to the tree. That's gotta be super frustrating for the king, having to walk back and carry him every single time. But that's just me musing over the situation.
Did the thief weep or laugh when he saw the merchant's daughter approaching him at the stake? This is the question posed by the goblin in the Girl and the Thief. A merchant has a beautiful daughter, and everyone pines for her hand in marriage, but she hates the idea. Eventually a thief ravages all the cities. He amasses much gold and jewels.
The king tries to go find him, and eventually does. He takes his army to the thief's place and the thief just goes bonkers on an entire army. But the king wrestles him down and takes him to the city alive. Of course, the merchant's daughter falls madly in love with the thief. To summarize, because this is getting lengthy, the daughter asks Shiva for two things: for her father to have a hundred sons for when she kills herself, and to bring the thief back as an honest man. Shiva grants both, and they get married and yadda yadda. The king then answers the goblins question thusly: the thief wept from grief for he couldn't repay the merchant's kindness and laughed from astonishment because the girl chose him over kings. Then the goblin goes back to the tree AGAIN. What did I take away from this story? Women are unpredictable! Haha.
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