For weeks 6 and 7, I read two
different sections of stories in the India unit of the Un-Textbook. The two
were Indian Fairytales and Bengali Folktales. Overall I liked this unit very
much. I found it hard at times to choose between stories to read. They are all
so interesting to me. The reasons why I chose the two that I did were
1. I like reading about fairytales from other countries.
Last semester, in the Mythology and Folklore class I had the opportunity to
read many different stories from around the world. Along the way I noticed that
each Unit of stories had a similar theme to them. For example some of them had
happy endings and others had bad ones.
2.
The Bengali and Indian Fairy Tales units had
easy to see and clear cut motifs within some of their stories. All of the
Bengali stories had a happy ending. The Indian Fairy Tales stories had some
tricksters in it.
My favorite stories from the two units were The Tiger the Brahman and the Jackal,
and The Story of a Brahmadaitya. I believe
that the first story is clever because the Jackal ends up out-smarting the
tiger, which puts bad karma on him. The second story is also my favorite
because it is a feel-good story about a poor man who finds great fortune thanks
to the Brahmadaitya. I didn’t really have any least favorite stories. I thought
that all of the stories were told well. There were some connection I found in
the India unit from reading the Ramayana. Mostly, it was just simple things like
the names of the type of people and gods. Overall I really enjoyed this Unit in
the Un-Textbook. I was surprised by how well the stories were told in the
Bengali section.
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