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Extra Credit Reading Notes: Hansel and Grethel Pt. 2
Story source: Household Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , translated by Margaret Hunt (1884). Plot: The children Hansel and Grethel arrived back at their father's house by the way of the stones. The step-mother answered the door and pretended to be excited to see them. The father actually was glad to see them. After some time, the mother suggested the same plan because the family was once again out of food. Hansel again heard the conversation and went to pick up stones as he did the first time. However, the step-mother had locked the door. Instead, the next day, Hansel dropped balled up bits of bread to follow back to the house. When the night fell they were unable to find the crumbs left behind. Animals and other creatures had eaten the bread set behind them. The two were lost and without any food. They eventually passed out under a tree and that is where the story ends. Thoughts: This section was again pretty similar to the first. I had...
Extra Credit Reading Notes: Life of Buddha, Part A
First Encounter Story source: The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold (1922). Original Source Plot: So there is this prince who was incredible sheltered from the outside world. one day someone told him about how beautiful nature was outside nad he desperately wanted to go outside. The king wanted his son to see no evil so he ordered all the sick and beggars and allowed his son to go out. there was an extravagant chariot made up and the king basically decorated the whole town so that what his son saw would not be how things actually are. The gods became jealous of all the praise that the prince was reviewing so they sent an old man and made him cross paths with the prince. The prince was confused at the man as he had never seen anyone elderly. So he asked his charioteer if the man was a monster. The charioteer told him that this was just an old man, and that one day this would happen to the prince too. Thoughts: I love this story because it is such a crazy, almost...
Gym life has been so disrupted during the pandemic, Kev... I hope you will be able to enjoy some kind of good gym routine this semester! :-)
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