Week 12 Jataka Tales Part A Reading Notes

The Little Gildmaster: I  really liked this story. It was a story about being smart and cunning in able to get ahead. I think of this as a story about doing a little will eventually end up as a lot. Every little investment you put into yourself slowly gathers up into a major change. Just as you won't get an A by studying for a week in the end. It is a better idea to study a little throughout the semester as opposed to cramming. It's much easier to have a hot bod for the beach if you start going to the gym the summer before not a month before. You don't become a millionaire by winning the lottery you do by saving up little and little throughout your life. This story makes me think of the legend about the girl who asks for one grain of rice to be doubled on the chess board. It looks as if she's going to have no rice, but by the end of the board there isn't enough rice to give to her. I believe that is also an Indian story, but I am not super sure. 



I also am taking notes over the guilty dogs. In this story, the king's dogs break his carriage and cry wolf to have all dogs except them killed. This is a story of deceit and lying. This story makes me think of the Jussie Smollett case. Jussie Smollett said that he was attacked by white people shouting about MAGA country. He went onto talk shows crying about how he had been attacked, but then It came out he was a guilty dog. He had staged the whole thing to get something he wanted just like the dogs. It's crazy how a tale as old as time keeps coming up in the modern day. 

A guilty dog!

Bibliography: Jataka Tales H.T. Francis and E. J. Thomas