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Reading Notes Week 11: Jataka Tales B

For this reading, I stuck with the Jataka tales and realized how much I loved reading these. They feel less daunting than a whole book so the reading goes by so much faster. This week the first story I chose I did not actually like. I actually hated it because the message it had was not a good lesson and did not have an actual ending. It was the "Silence is Golden" story. It started off with a lion and a jackal having a kid together. While he looked like a lion, he sounded like a jackal. Because of this he would never speak. One time he decided to speak and he was made fun of. After that he decided to never speak again. Then the story just ends. It ended like the lesson was telling us to be ashamed of something we were born with. I get that this story was not written in 2019, but wow.

If I were to write a story with this as my source, I would definitely change it to make sure that he learned how to speak up and not be ashamed for what he sounded like. As a kid and even now people have said my voice can be pretty high at times and it sucks. Your voice is a necessity to most peoples everyday life. 0/10 story.

The second story I read was also about lions and jackal and it was the one where the lioness wanted to kill the jackal all because he wanted to marry her. In the end two of the lions died and so did the jackal and the last line of story describes that she was not even sad about her brothers. It said as long as one of them was left to bring them food and that the jackal was dead, she was happy. What kind of story is this?! I want a happy ending and these two stories both gave really crappy endings. When writing my own story I will definitely be making better endings.

(Howling Cub. Source: Blogger)

Bibliography: Jatakas, Panchatantra, and Other Fables from India
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  1. Asha ChandrasekarNovember 4, 2019 at 12:05 AM

    Hi again Jacob! Here I am again getting my comments in but I agree with you on how much fun the Jataka tales are. Because they are like short stories that you are able to build off of and frame your own story. The lions and jackal story was interesting but also one of my favorites was the Elephant and the old lady since it was a story where it showed how much the elephant valued the old lady who took care of him and how he wanted to repay her in the kindest way. It shows that this is the type of love that exists in the world and that a love like this is the most purest and most honest. Good job on these posts.

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