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Reading Notes Part A: Fables of Bidpai

I enjoyed the majority of these fables. I like that each one can teach you a different lesson. The fox stories got old after the first few. I would like to write a story about greed, foolishness, or deceit. My favorite story is "The Merchant and His Iron." In this story, a man tries to lie to his friend about a rat stealing his iron. The man who lied lost his child and the friend told him that a bird flew away with him. Of course, the man did not believe him, so the friend said that it was not a ridiculous idea that a bird could fly away with a child in a town where rats eat two hundred tons of iron.

Another possible story I could write would be similar to "The Farmer, the Sheep, and the Robbers." Four robbers fooled a man into thinking that his sheep was a dog so that they could steal it. When the man left his sheep tied to a tree to go yell at the man who sold it to him, the robbers stole the sheep. This story could be a little more tricky if I wanted to turn it into a story that is more relevant to my generation.

I enjoyed the story, "The Carpenter and the Ape." It took a turn that I did not expect. An ape tried to do something a carpenter does and ends up hurting himself. This would be a story that could be easy to replicate and tweak just a little.

"The Ape and the Boar" is a story that teaches the reader about greed. The boar goes from being grateful for the ape to wanting to hurt the ape because he cannot have as much sustenance as he would like. The boar ends up breaking his own neck trying to hurt the ape.

I think I will have fun with this one.


Fables of Bidpai written by Panchatantra Read here
Fables of Bidpai

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