Saturday, November 13, 2010

Compare/Contrast folklure

There are many stories/folklore in the world out there, they can be very similar or very different with each other.  Stories from different countries with the same theme just told differently, or a completely different theme. So my three folklore stories are from three different country, but all have the same theme... kinda, all three stories theme are good.
    My first story is from Mexico, called “The Girl in White”. In this folklore, it is about a man who is to go to this ball with his girlfriend, but she got sick.  The man was not going to go but his good mate convinced him to go for fun at least. While he was there having fun, he saw a gorgeous girl in white and had to ask her to dance. Later he finds out that the girl he just danced with was a ghost! So the theme here is to be loyal to your girl.
    This next story of mine is from Vietnam and it’s called “The Tiger”. This is a weird story to me personally even though it’s from my country, but it is about a woman’s son who is killed by a tiger.  The woman griefs over this and as she was walking home from her son’s funeral she encounters the tiger.  She screams at the tiger for what it has done and the tiger helps out the woman for what he has done.  So everyday he brings in game for the woman, food and money.
I’m pretty positive that the theme her is to always be forgiving to anyone for what they did, everybody deserves a second chance.
    Now for the grand finale, is a folklore from Germany called “one-eye, two-eye and three-eye”. There are three girls in this story and of course they are what the title says. One girl has one eye, the other has two and the third girl has three eye. The girl with two eyes is treated horrible because she is different from the other two girls, they are freak while she is normal. It is a very long story, but at the end a prince comes and takes away two-eye and the other girls are jealous, so she lives happily ever after. The theme here was that no matter how different anyone is with everybody they should always be treated the same.
    So that was my three folklore from three different country from around the world.  They all have the same kind of theme, to be nice, but they are all different with the characters.

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