Day 17

Wang the Peddler(new folk tale)


In the new Chinese folk-tale that i have just read, the story was about a man that knew he had to get into the city to sell his coal that he was gathering. One day his wife told him that she wanted a beautiful comb, made of wood, that was beautiful like it was used in the imperial courts.He went to the city, and sold all his coal. Then he went in search for the something that his wife had wanted. He had forgot exactly what she wanted, and bought her a mirror because he remembered only that what she wanted, had to be mooned shaped like a crescent.  


Similarities: I see no kind of similarities in the story. The morals are way different. The lesson that i learned in this one is worry of getting your job done can interfere with life at home. The lesson learned in the story I am translating is do not lie because you will get caught up in it. No similarity.  


All the differences are listed above but there is one significance in both stories. The number 2. in the new story there is 2 people, he has 2 caskets of bamboo that carry the coal. The mooned shaped crescent is used twice as well. In my story there is 2 people, 2 days and nights, 2 lectures, 2 encounters with Mary.  


The message of the story i have just read is told above. That work, or your job can interfere with your family, and social life. It can effect it a great day. Some people come home from their jobs stressed, and are in bad moods. Sometimes cuts are mad within the corporation, and people go into depression because they think their life is over. Many reasons cause people to act like this but these are some of the main reasons.

Day 16

Jaun- He's going to have one of those most Mexican accents tht i just can't stand. Also he was not going to able to speak correct english because most of them can not down in Mexico. I'm just trying to relate how they talk by their culture since that is what everything in the past blogs have been about. He is also going to have a cracking voice.

Mr.Chavez is going to have a deep mexican voice. A voice sort D-bo off friday, but his voice is also going to have a very annoying mexican accent as well. His voice is going to be somewhat silent too because of his elderly age. He's not a well man, and has sickness with a smokers cough.

Mr. Chavez- How is the weather jaun?
Jaun- I don't think that is important Mr.
Mr. Chavez- Well I was just asking. You do not cough....... cough. cough. You do not to be so rude about it.
Jaun- I was trying to tell you that question really is not important.
Mr. Chavez- Jaun, just go to the cough........ office. I've had enough.
Jaun- Enough of what?
Mr.Chavez your arrogant attitude. Just leave my classroom(then falls asleep).
Jaun- Haha. Old man can not keep his head up for more than 5 minutes without falling asleep(leaves the room).

Day 15

Critique-Although i did a good job on my animoto i felt that i could have done better on it. I only spent 20 minutes. I felt that i could have put more effort in my animoto. Even though i told my story through the pictures i felt that i could have found more elegant pictures.


Criticism-Some of the pictures of the animoto were a little mature for little kids. that is one negative about it. Another thing i felt could have been improved was more pictures to tell the story perfectly, but there was not enough slides.  


Congrats-Congratulate myself because i felt good about it because, number one, i got it done. Number two i taught i my story through my pictures. I thought this was an excellent idea so the people could get images about my story. I think the morals are great in my story.

Day 14

To begin the story will start off during the day, and since the kid in my story is a lazy bum, the mythical creature is there to give him an extra push to school, and to keep him out of trouble with the outside world if you don't realize that. Day 1- He runs to school being chased by the creature on october 30. The teacher falls to sleep in class he ask the teacher why are so so lazy, and the teacher responds with that's how i get your lessons. From the Virgin Mary. So the kid falls for it. The bell rings and he goes home, and he sees some of his friends doing bad things in the streets, but once he tries to join them the Creature comes out of nowhere and chases him home. He stays in the rest of the night wondering why Mr. Chavez goes to sleep for his lessons, and how a mythical being like a chupacabra comes out of nowhere. He stays up the rest of the night horrified. Day 2- He goes to school in the next morning and is so tired and exhausted from staying up late. So he falls asleep, and in his dream he sees Mary and all her children around her. Juan decides to ask Holy Mary does she give the lessons taught in class by Mr. Chavez, and Mary replies,"I've never seen Mr. Chavez in my life." So he catches the teacher in his lie. The teacher gets mad and throws him in detention until six O'clock. After the detention it's already dark. It is around 6:30. So when him and his friends see each other in the street, they go around vandalizing things. Once again the Mythical being comes out of nowhere and only chases Juan. But why? It's to get the boy out of trouble and so he realizes that he's hanging around the wrong group of people who are peer pressuring him, and negatively influecing his life.

Day 13

My folk-tale provides that the message within my text. Is to never lie because lies inly get you tied up. That is the essential message of my story.I want to share the same message with my story, There really can't be any changes to the message being conveyed. I can only add moral lessons. There isn't much to change in this story with the lesson being taught. I can only change, or add another lesson because if i alter anything in my story other than the student outsmarting the teacher the message itself will change no matter which culture, a lie is a lie, there all misleading, and bad.

Day 12

Mine is definitely a Trickster folk-tale. 100% of the way. In the story the kids creates humor by answering the teacher with The Buddha saying he has never seen him before when the teacher says he sees him every time he takes a nap, but the Student later finds out that the teacher is lying.  


When i read this story i chuckled at the end because the teacher was caught up in his own lie, and the student outsmarted the teacher. The teacher was the more powerful character in the folk tale and the smaller character out maneuvered him. This is an excellent folk-tale on teaching a lesson to never lie. I'm rewriting it with the same exact line because i want to keep the moral lesson with the story.

Day 11

The Monk and The Student

There is no numerical mythology with any number in my original story. In the original story the only guess I can infer would have to be the number 2. there are two main characters. There is only 2 settings in the whole story. There is 2 times that buddha is mentioned, and there are two days, and two nights throughout the whole story. Those are some examples on why I think two is the magic number in this story.

In the new, and improved version I think that the number will still be two. There is two people, there will be two days, there will be 2 main places still, and my mythical creature will appear twice. The number of settings will change, and there will be some other things changed. It will fall on October 31 on Haloween, but if you subtract the numbers you get 2!! 

Day 10

I'm all caught up on every blog. Things, and opinions I hear from other people helped me shape my story into what it needs to be. The major help came from the most strict critiquer of all Jarelle Easterwood. Without his help i would be lost in my story, but he kept me on the right track even though his strict as God knows what.

The importance of blogging is hearing what other people has to say so I can fix my mistakes. Blogging is a way for other people to proofread your work. THe major difference between writing this on paper, and blogging is the multiple corrections you can receive, and how much of a time saver doing this electronically can be.

Day 9

 There aren't many fantasy things about my culture, but i know that one animal that is and it's a chupacabra. They are a hybrid of a dog, and a bat. They are bipedal, and walks on two legs. The hispanic culture doesn't really have any pleasant creatures or mythical things that are positive towards the kids.

There are hardly any fantasy elements to add to my story because there are simply not that many mythical things in Central America, Mexico, and Spain. It's going to hard to think of interesting creatures or things that relate to the hispanic culture to capture the audience of the little kids. Only things i get are scarely ghostly myths and tales that i don't think are appropriate for our young audience. I'm going to have to go figure.

day 8

The Monk and The Student

I choose this picture because it's simply elegant, and serene. Everything looks so calm and peaceful except for the guy that looks like he's trying to kill buddha on the top left. The luminescent light looks so beautiful, and telling from the things around him, and From Buddha being in the center of the picture, you can tell that he's a great religious philospher.

The water underneath him seems to be still, and the cherry blossoms falling gradually from above also add to the serenity. This picture has so much color it feels like it's alive. The angels to the sides of buddha must be shielding him from all the evilness, and I ultimately chose this picture because it's perfect for the asian culture that the story is originating from. 

I also think that this represents asian culture itself. Most asians are calm, and quiet. They just mind their own business, and achieve what they need to go. Most asian people aren't violent, and the whole martial arts thing, asians learn an art form called Wushu, which when translated means into english means "Stop War".

Day 7

The Monk and The Student( Mexican Version)

There is no main character, but characters. My character as the student is named juan, and the teachers name is Mr. Chavez. Mr. Chavez falls asleep in class and claims to have seen the virgin Mary. The next day Juan falls to sleep and says to the teacher that the virgin Mary hasn't seen him.

Mr. Chavez is a bald teacher that is aging, and getting old, has a beard, and doesnt care about his job. He's just trying to make it in the world, and doesnt care about the education that the kids are receving. He has thin eyebrows, brown skin. He comes from a family that has 16 kids, and was one of the exiled brothers because he was boring.He is a poor person who has no wife, and no kids. He likes to sleep, and when he is active he watches TV.

Juan portrays only to be a gangster when really he's not. although he has no interest in school he is all about the females, but is always rejected. He says that he is making his money when he really only is making F's. He is bald headed, dresses with dickies, and flannel shirts with his Loc glasses on all the time. He lives for no special occasion, but to be lame and is not smart. He is the child of 7, is slanky, and wears extremely big clothes.

day 6

The spanish alphabet consist of 30 letters supposedly from the picture. I think it will be pretty interesting to write a book in spanish because i can add a lot of humor. A lot of sterotypical things are in the mexican heritage such as the mom with a chancla.

Well since I'm changing it into spanish I'm going to use words such as:
Hola- Hi
Adios-Bye, Later
Que- what?
Hombre- man
oye-Hey!
bocado- snack
porque- why, becasue
extrano- stange
animal-animal
mitico- mythical\
esto-this
eso-that
donde-where
quien-who
alli-there
Phrases that I'm going to use are:
que pasa- whats up
yo tengo hambre- i am hungry
sientese en este momento- sit down right now.
tu es estupido- you are stupid
me cai dormido- I feel asleep
ella nunca la ha visto- she has never seen you
estoy consado- I am tired
Buenos dias- good morning



This language will be pretty easy. I don't know it but i hear it daily, and catch on to a lot of words, but if there any errors in some of the translations that i have gotten, feel free to comment so i can fix my errors so my story will have correct language in it.

Day 5

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Day 4

The Monk and The Student

All the action and events in my story occur in the school classroom. That is actually where everything took place. The teacher, and the student only went home one time, and no action took place in either households. All the dialogue takes place in the classroom. The Folk-tale comes from China. other than that it had no specifics, no weather, no nothing. Thats why i know its going to create my version of the story because there is a lot of room for imagination in my folk-tale.

In the new story the weather will be exhausting, and hot thus making the teacher falling to sleep. I'm also going to add a mytical creature just to add some element of scariness to it, and so the children that we're reading the book can take an intrest, and I change my mind on the Holiday. It will be on Holoween because I heard that is a real tiring day because of all the festivities that occur. Also because haloween is known for it's scariess so the mythical creature has a purpose.
I'm still in the process of thinking but I believe I can make a real interesting childrens book because of how many things that this folk-tale is missing.

Day 3

Write about the components of the culture you have chosen. What are the important aspects that you want to share in your story. Make a list of these components and describe their importance. Think about food, religion, mythology, music, clothing, relationships, history, geographic location, climate, flora and fauna, and holidays. Your list should be lengthy and detailed, as this activity requires you do some research.

The Monk and The Student

Some important aspects that i needed to analyze before thinking of ways to rewrite this in another way is to see how the students in Hispanic culture act. I want to share the how Hispanic culture is, and how they act in school life. 9% of hispanics retain a bachelors degree, and only 2% a masters. This tells me that hispanics don't enjoy school, and that they have a negative attitude towards education. Also from experience around my school i can see that most hispanics don't enjoy school, or don't take an interest. 

I'm also going to add additional parts to the story. I'm going to add a fauna, and mythical creature at the start which is a chupacabra, and it will fall on Cinco de Mayo. The geographical location will be in a desert with cacti and a boy walking to school barefoot.To replace the Buddha,  The Virgin Mary will be in place. A burrito will be in place for snack. Clothing will be a little dirty, and in sandals.  Those are the components that need to be altered, and added. The climate will be fair, and humid.

Day 2

There are essentially no motifs in my story that resemble something of importance. The only thing that reoccurs is the school building. The archetypical characters are the teacher, the student, and the great philosopher of asia, Buddha. These people are the main focus because they are the only people in the story.

Without any one of those characters, there is no way to duplicate this story in to my own work, or folk tale. I want to retain everything about the story, but I'm going to have to get rid of Buddha, and put in Jesus or a religious prophet that the Spanish are most familiar with. I want to retain also the elemet of lying, and decpetion because thats what the whole story is about.

Day One

The Monk and the Student

I chose this folk-tale because I thought it would be interesting coming from China because I think the whole chinese culture is very interesting. From experience, I know how chinese do prayer worship because my grandmother is from Taiwan, and some chinese cultures, and traditions have influenced culture in there country she said. She believes in all religion that teaches good attitude and morals, but her main practice is Buddhism.

I also chose this folk-tale because after reading it, I thought it had some good humor in it. The teacher fell asleep in his class everyday, and he told a student he did because Buddha gave him knowledge, and information to teach the class. Well one day, the student he told fell asleep in his class, and the teacher got very mad, and after he yelled at the student, the student said I dreamt of Buddha, and he told the teacher that Buddha said,"Never in my life have i seen your teacher."

I chose the new culture the be Spanish because Hispanics are crazy, and i would like to see the reaction of a Spanish teacher. Also Hispanic kids are not as courteous as any asian kid. So i think if it was rewritten in this language more problems would occur