Drew Myth & Folk

For week 6 I chose to do a storylab, the article I chose to do it over was What’s the Difference Between An Autobiography and a Memoir . Although both are based on the truth and both require lots of research, there are many differences between each. Starting with autobiographies. They are usually written by someone famous, and they usually make use of documentary records. Autobiographies usually focus on an entire life, starting at brth and chronologically progressing until the current age. It usually has the feeling of a historical document and is filled with facts and specific dates. Now the similar Memoir has its differences as well. Memoirs can be written by anyone, and is a representation of a memory, not of history. Memoirs focus on an event, theme or choice in life. Memoirs can begin anywhere and move backwards or forwards and end whenever. Memoirs are more concerned with the emotional truths of your life. This article had some great insight of the differences betw...

The story that I have chosen for today's reading notes was the Elephants and the Ants . This story comes from the section of the Santal Folklore Unit. In the story there is two ants and an elephant. The ants challenge the elephant to a race to because the elephants says that there is nothing that the ants could beat him at. The Elephant started the race and when he stopped because he got tired, he looked down and saw two ants. He would set off running and kept seeing the two ants. He finally collapsed and died, but little did he know every time he stopped it was two different ants. The plot that I got from this story was that we should never bully nor cheat men happen to be born stupid. (Image is of an Indian Elephant, Source: Elephant )

The story I chose to read for today's reading notes was TheMonkey and the Girl . This story came from the Santal Folklore section. In the story there was a girl that fell for a monkey. But the girls parents did not approve of this so they killed the monkey. The dad decided to burn the monkey like the corpse of a man. The girl was watching and distracted everyone standing around and then blinded them with sand. When they were clearing their eyes the girl jumped in the fire and burned with the monkey. So the plot I took away with this story was that doing a quick fix to a problem will backfire in the end. And this plot if from the perspective of the dad losing the daughter in the end. (Picture is of a monkey, Source: Monkey )