Analyze a Folk Tale

In the folk tale” Coyote kills the Giant”, the main character is trying to kill the monster that eats everyone that goes into his mouth. The coyote is trying to be the hero who would jump out and save the world by killing the monster. If the coyote didn’t kill the monster and rescue the people inside the monster’s stomach, there might be more victims that would die. The fold tale’s moral tells the readers that if there’s no one willing to save the world by risking their lives, there would be more people that might die or injured. When kids read about folk tales like this story, the monster that kills civilians always have a bad ending, and there’s no exception in this story as well. The coyote saved the people walking around the forest. If he listened to the advice and stopped walking towards the monster, the people inside the monster’s stomach might never be rescued and died because of hunger. There are always morals telling kids that all the good and brave people can complete the most dangerous tasks and be the hero that saves the lives of other people in the story.

Compare and Contrast

John and the coyote are challenging themselves to overcome their fear. John wanted to go East to the forbidden place. He was a priest and he wanted to go challenge his journey. The coyote was also challenging his braveness. He believed that he has the ability to kill the giant, just like John believing that he could go East because he was a priest. The settings of the two stories are quite priest. The settings of the two stories are quite similar. In the Waters of Babylon, John went to the sacred places where as the coyote went into the giant’s body. The settings may sound different but it’s really not. Both protagonists have their journey at places where others were afraid to go. There were people in the stories that advised the main characters not to go to those places, but neither of the main characters listened to the advises that were given. After reading both stories, I found out that both John and the coyote went into another person’s property. John went into God’s property where on the other hand the coyote went into the big monster’s property (his stomach). Both of them have a happy ending at the end.

Conflicts-Internal and External

John faced a major internal conflict inside the story. He was struggling with his fears and he was deciding if he should go East to the “forbidden place” or not. There were a lot of stories told by elders that said it was forbidden to go East because tales said it was where the God lives. He was having a hard time deciding if he should go because he might just never come back if he went into God’s property. On the other hand, he can also be the hero that was the first person to come back alive from the East. John also faced a major external conflict in the story. He took eight days to finish his journey and it wasn’t easy at all. During the journey, John was once chased by dogs and he was sleeping in other people’s apartment without any permission. When he was being chased by the dogs, he ran, found a door, and shut the door and isolated himself away from the dogs. He later ran up the stairs and that was another external conflict he faced. He started to feel dizzy after running the stairs. John also met external conflicts when he saw the rivers because he used to be living in the hills.

Unfamiliar Place

Once you walk into the building, it looks like an office building instead of a regular school. This is Pacific American School. Every classroom looks the same with white walls, white ceiling, and white floor, except for the auditorium. There are blue carpets that cover the whole floor with at least fifteen rows of chairs. The cafeteria is close to the auditorium and it does not smell good at all. There is always a stinky smell that is just too awful to be describe in words. The food also doesn’t taste good. It is always something oily, even the vegetables have an odd smell. Sometimes when we were having dumplings, they were awful and they were barely edible. After every period of class ends, you can always hear the same music that is played by Beethoven. The music was the bell that tells the teacher to end his or her lecture. When you take the elevator and reached sixth floor, you can see our basketball court. It is the only place where we take our PE class. Everything was unfamiliar to me, but as time goes on, I start to get use to it and this is part of my home now.

By the Waters of Babylon

My experience at Camp PAS last week was like a journey you see in a movie or story. I think the first day of camp was a big challenge because it was more tiring than running in a basketball practice. We first played paintball without wearing any helmet on top of our heads. It was probably the most dangerous paintball game I’ve ever played before. I could’ve been shot right at the back of my head and my dead body would be lying on the ground of a paintball battlefield.

After fifty minutes of paintball game, we started catching things in the nature such as branches and leaves. It was like I was trying to survive and get food in nature. We started hiking up the mountain to a temple. I was exhausted when I was half way through our destination. It was definitely like a long and hard journey to me. I felt like I was exploring some kind of land like Louis and Clark. Both of my legs were exhausted and I was about to give and start walking down, but I knew that my journey doesn’t end with me quitting, so I still convinced myself to walked all the way up to the temple and walk down.

Making Time Move Slowly

Finney is using descriptive details to make time seem to move more slower. There are a lot of thoughts made by Tom that were written down by Finney. For every action and step Tom makes, he would thought about the consequences/effect. Before Tom was about to break the window, he thought carefully about the result that could've have happened if he break the window and if he didn't break the window.

Values

• graduating from high school and going to a good college.
• going to a MUN Conference in my freshman year.
• winning basketball games on a school team.
• receiving a high score on a PSAT in 8th grade.
• getting a GPA higher than what i expected in freshman year.
• learning how to play gold and competing with kids who are older than me when I was in second grade.
• living in Vancouver for four years in my life, where I was always close to nature.

There must be something important in people's lives. Living up to a certain age may be a significant value for old people. Winning a gold medal in the Olympics may also be another significant value in their lives. I went to my first MUN conference when I was in 9th grade and that was an important event to me. It's probably the first time that I talked in font of 80 other kids wearing suits. That conference gave me an experience and since then, I was more confident and comfortable giving a speech without thinking what I should say in the middle of a speech. Winning my first basketball game was also a significant moment in my life. It was the first time I ever played on school team, wearing a jersey, and playing formal game. Even though we didn't the win the game, but it was definitely an important experience and that's the value that I have that is priceless.

Page 7 Picture Description

The movie looks violent. They are in a bamboo forest and all five of them look ready to fight. You can't really tell the gender of these people, but the one on the ground looks like a female. The setting kind of contradicts with the characters. The characters are dressed like Japanese ninjas in a Chinese bamboo forest. We can see that the four people in the air are professional that have some "super power" for them to fly(or at least jump taller than regular human beings). The smoke at the background gives us a creep and unfriendly mood.

Collection 1: Human Stories

• Birth of a baby
• Death
• Struggling during life
• Education of a child
• First time getting in love
• Being mature enough to work and earn money
• Hunting down animals for food
• Getting a happy ending
• Being bored while doing a particular thing
• Getting a child after being married

Willa Cather's:

• Birth of a baby
• Educating children
• Struggling during life