The story in this reading part A of the Rouse were very
interesting. I like the part in a hypocritical cat, where the cat pretends to
be doing a noble act and stands on one foot facing towards the sun. When the
rats who thought he was a noble cat and came to worship him, he grabbed and ate
the last rat. But he couldn’t continue this drama because he gets caught by the
chief of the rats. He ended up dead after he tried to snap the chief of the
rat. The other interesting story that caught my eyes was the Pious wolf. He
gets stuck on the top of a big rock surrounded by water with no food. So he pretends
to fast because he had no food anyways. But, when the fairy comes to examine
him for the validity of his fasting he fails and he gets a punishment of being
trapped there to fast for a whole week. For me, the whole theme of the stories
that I read was to be of a good heart. We should act, work only when we meant
it to from deep inside our heart. If we are just faking what we are doing, the
end results are not good. Do it from your heart, be true and speak the truth.
Doing stuff just to look noble in the eyes of others and having a different
thoughts in your mind is not a good act at all. Even in the story of the
Crocodile and the monkey, the crocodile tries to act like he wanted to help the
monkey cross the river to the other side where there were more foods, and
having a different idea in his mind, that is to eat the monkey’s heart. The
crocodile ended up making a fool out of himself. So to sum up, work from your
heat, be pure minded and don’t foul play on someone else because you will end
up getting hurt, making a fool out of yourself and even die because of your
act.
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Source: A hypocritical cat
Week 5 Reading Diary: Extra Credit, Rouse Part A
Title of the book : The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old
India
Author: W.H.D.Rouse
Year: 1897
Link: book rouse giant crab
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