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Folk Tales

When you where a kid did your parents ever tell you stories about your culture or about your family’s values? Chances are they where telling you a folk tale. are stories passed down usually by word of mouth but often they are written down. teach a valuable life lesson while entertaining the reader or in some cases the listener. This essay will give examples of three and go into depth on how they teach lessons and still remain entertaining for children and even adults.
The first of the three I will be discussing is titled The Sheep of San Cristobal, in which a young woman named Filipa looses her only son. She makes ends meet by growing beans and selling them to the local ...

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fall apart. It is a story of a greedy manipulative turtle who tricks a flock of birds out of their feast in the sky, but he soon learns his lesson when the birds take away their feathers and he is forced to jump back to earth thus shattering his smooth shell. This story shows that this culture believes that if you do bad things you will eventually get what is coming to you.The third folk tale is called In the Land of the Small Dragon. This story has many similarities with Cinderella. It is the story of a beautiful young girl named Tam who’s beauty reflects her inner kindness and innocence. Her half-sister Cam is ugly, which reflects her bitter, jealous, and lazy personality. Tams stepmother treats her like a slave and lets Cam do whatever she wants. Later in the story Tam is given new clothes and a
pair of crystal shoes by some animals. A bird takes on of the shoes and delivers in to the emperors son, who is inspired to find the owner of the shoe and marry her. This story ...

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Added: 11/30/2006 10:50:11 AM
Category: English
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