Reading Diary A: Indian Fairy Tales

My favorite stories from the Indian Fairy Tales unit by Joseph Jacobs are:

The Cruel Crane Outwitted. I like this story because of its ending. The characters include a crane, some fishes, and a crab. The cranes lies to the fishes and takes them to another pond and eats them. He gets greedy and plans to eat the crab. This is where the story gets interesting. The title gave it away, but it was still interesting to see how the crab deceive the crane at its own game. The crane dies at the end, making the story better. It provides an important lesson of greed.

The Cruel Crane Outwitted picture 
from Indian Fairy Tales. Illustrations done by
John D. Batten. 

The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal. This was a great story. I was reading and halfway through I understood what the jackal was up to. A tiger, a brahman, a jackal, and some others are the characters. The tiger should've left with his new freedom, but couldn't mend his ways. Instead, it tried to bit the hand that freed him. The jackal was the smartest one by pretending to be dumb. That was the best part, the tiger thinking the jackal is dumb, but instead, it was all a plan. This was a very nice story to read. 

Harisarman. This was another great story. I am glad I decided to read this unit as all the stories were interesting. This was one of my favorite because it was so different from other stories. Other stories tend to give lessons or just provide sad endings. This was a story about a poor man who lies to feed himself and his family. He deceits a lot of people, but he doesn't get caught. That is why it was not a sad ending. Just the pure luck he had was very interesting to read.