The Crab and the Monkey: This story is a good one. The monkey tries to trick the crab and steal all the fruit from her tree. When the crab tricks the monkey too, the monkey gets mad and tries to kill the crab. Luckily the crab has a friend that helps her get better and they decide to get revenge and eventually kill the monkey. The crab is really nice to the monkey throughout the story but even still the monkey is horrible to the crab. I like that the crab won in the end because she was nice the entire time.
The Magic Kettle: What made this story so memorable to me was that the man who ended up by the kettle was so honest. He was a good person because after he had made his riches by using the kettle that turned into a tanuki, he returned the kettle to the original owner and gave him part of the riches. You don't hear many stories where people are so honest and genuinely want to be fair. I really liked this story.
Uraschimataro and the Turtle: This story turns out to be quite sad. Uraschimataro goes under the sea and meets a princess and promises to stay with her. She grants him an everlasting life and he stays with her. He starts to miss his parents and asks to go visit them, only to discover that it is 300 years later and they are obviously gone. He opens the box, that which the princess told him not to, and he turns into an old man and does not return to the princess. He dies shortly after.
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| Turtle photo taken by Brocken Inaglory. Wikimedia Commons |
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