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Week 7 story: A Charley Tells a Tale

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A Charley Tells a Tale  A Barrel of Monkeys Link This story can now be view in my portfolio here .   There was once a Charley who needed to go out and buy milk for the apartment. He went up to his roommate Jacob and collected some of the money that he was owed. With money now in hand, he was off to get the milk. Charley got home after going out and Jacob asked Charley where the milk was. Charley proceeded to tell Jacob a fantastical story of what went on after he had left to go buy milk. “So, I left the apartment, and as I was walking by the balcony, I noticed some money in the grass below. I thought how serendipitous, I can go get that money and buy more than just milk. I rushed downstairs as fast as I could in order to quickly seize the money. As I got closer, I realized that it was a twenty-dollar bill. That is enough to buy us a weeks’ worth of groceries!” This is when Jacob abruptly asked why I didn’t have any groceries then. Charley replied that he ...

reading notes: japanese fairy tales part B

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Tanooki mario Link This was a story of a hero who left home. He went out seeking adventure and one night stumbled upon a group of cats chanting. they were saying do not tell schippetero. the hero went into town to find a girl who was to be sacrificed to these cats. he asked about schippetero, who he found out was the prince's dog. He got the dog and hid him inside the box that would be given to the cats. when the time came, the dog jumped out and so did the hero, and they killed the mountain spirit cat king and some of his henchmen. a crab found some rice outside of her home. a monkey offered he a fruit seed for half of the rice. she said yes and grew a tree from the seed. the monkey came back and took all the fruit and did not give any to the crab, so she tricked him into dropping some for her, and he got mad and beat her half to death. her friends came and saved her and then devised a plan to get back at him. a man and a tanuki had a rivalry. The man captured the tanuk...

reading notes: japanese fairy tales part A

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  two frogs standing atop one another Link two separate frogs decided to go on a journey across their country. They both started on one end and were going were the other was coming from. they met in the middle atop a mountain and decide to climb ato the others back to see if where they were headed was worth it. they did this and stretched out as long as they could, but whilst their nose was facing the right town, their eyes were gazing upon the town they came from. They did not continue their journey, for they thought that the towns appeared to be the same, and they went home, not knowing how different the other town actually was. there was once a women who was extremely beautiful. She was brought up to be kind and to work really hard. Both of her parents died and the mothers last wish was that she hide her beauty, so she would not be ill treated or preyed upon, or something like that. She found a wooden helmet and wore it at all times. She started doing some farm work for...