There was a dragon in this story! A dragon! I was surprised
and confused that there would be a dragon in a West African folktale. I do not
know why I was so surprised but for some reason I just don’t think of dragons
when I think of West African folktales/fairytales. The story was very
interesting. I knew from previous stories that Anansi and his son, Kweku Tsin,
could shapeshift into different animals but I did not know that they were the
moon and sun as well. It always seems that Kweku Tsin is always the hero in
these stories and not Anansi. This makes me wonder why Anansi is the more well-known
character than his son. Why isn’t Kweku Tsin the face/main character of these
stories instead of his father?
As I mentioned earlier, I was surprised to read about a
dragon in West African folklore/fairytales but, I was not surprised that there
was a tiger even though, there are no tigers in Africa. I think this is because
West African stories are filled with animals that I didn’t even think twice
about the absence of tigers. I liked this cute story about friendship. When the
tiger decided to pretend to be dead in order to test the man’s friendship, I have
to admit that I expected the worse. For some reason, despite the title, I doubted
the man’s loyalty to the tiger but I am glad that I was proved wrong.
No comments:
Post a Comment