Drew Myth & Folk

The Weekend had finally come for the biggest fishing derby of the year. Jack a small-town boy in east Texas was completely prepared for this event and had been practicing on this lake for the past month. He knew exactly what the fish were doing and knew exactly what his plan would be during the tournament. Jack had been competitive bass fishing for seventy five percent of his life now and knew nothing other than it.   He had won many tournaments but never one of this caliber, so he knew this was his time to shine. Jack was only scared of one thing, the stick of east Texas. This man went by the name of Tom Smith, he had won this particular tournament the past 7 of the 10 times he had fished it. Jack believed there was no way he could beat Tom with out a little advantage. Two days before the tournament was supposed to start Jack was contemplating methods, he could use to beat Tom, and some of them were unsportsmanlike and did not represent Jacks character of being a hard worke...

The Story that I this week came from the South African Unit. The story was The Elephant and the Tortoise by James Honey.   In the story the Elephant asked of different birds to make rain and the only one that did was the crow. But then the lagoons dried up except for one, the elephant saw a tortoise near the water and ask him to remain at the water while he went a-hunting. The tortoise turned down many animals from drinking from the lagoon until lion showed up. The tortoise was beat up by the lion and then the animals drink from the lagoon. The elephant got back and saw this then the elephant swallowed him whole. The tortoise then tore off the elephant’s liver, heart and kidneys and the elephant died and the tortoise crawled back out. The story that I got from this was do not bully others into doing your own work. (Image is of an African Elephant, Source: Elephant )

The African Story I have found myself writing about this week comes from South African Folktales. This story is called The Lost Message by James Honey. In the story there in the forests of Africa are may different ant faction, or many different species of ants. All of them had predators that they could seem to not defend from so they held a meeting with all the ant leaders. They wanted a place where all the ants could live and be protected from all of the predators. Through all of the discussion the ants can to no solution and split back up. But going back to normal ways they ran into the same problems with the same predators The insect king saw the ants struggles and send the message of unity to them via a beetle but this beetle never made it to the ant colonies so the ants still live in discord and are still preyed on among other animals. (Picture is of an Ant: Source: Ant )

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 )

There once lived a hefty lumberjack in the mountains of Utah. He had a great passion for cutting trees that went deeper than just the wood. When he was a young boy his father started teaching him the ways of cutting lumber. He admired his father and had made the decision from a young age that he would be a lumberjack too. Fast forward 30 years and jack was a well-known lumberjack in the tree cutting community. Everyone in the community wanted to gift jack something. So, one day one of the local metal smith gifted jack a priceless golden ax. Jack was shocked and was thinking of endless opportunities that this new addition to his tool box would bring. Jack Rushed home and called up his dad. He told his dad about his newest addition and his dad responded by saying do not do something you will regret with it. He responded by saying he would never miss use this amazing gift. Jack went on with his day and tried out the golden ax. This ax was impeccable, it could cut down the thic...