Post #8: Medea by Euripides

In my classical cultures class, a interesting Greek folktale was assigned, this mythology interested me the most because of its interesting twist compared to the other Greek tales I've read about. This myth was used as a play back in the Greek times, and is still very well known in modern day times. The myth centers its story around a women who is not like any other Greek women, she is known as an barbarian because of what she can do when you get on her bad side. In the myth her husband leaves her for the princess of Colchis, however he was only considering himself in that situation. Since he was younger his dream was to become the King of any society, because of the chance to rule the land his father once ruled. But Medea didn't understand that, what she understood is that Jason, her husband she had done so much for and had two kids with is tired of her and left her for another women. Medea is furious over the idea, the current king of the Colchis realizes how Medea can be, and to protect his family he demands her to leave from Colchis. He gives her 24-hours to do so, however Medea takes this chance to not only kill the Princess, and King of Colchis but even her own kids. Medea wanted Jason to feel the pain she felt, and didn't want a constant reminder of him with his kids. The myth interested me in the sense of not hearing anything like that before, its not everyday that a mother kills her children.

Post #7: Tales from outer suberia

The tales from outer suberia was suprisingly short, however contained just enough information and pictures to understand the moral fully. The next reading on Graphic novels was interesting as well in learning different view points on how graphic novels can be interpreted. When reading the tale of outer suberia, my view point of the morally was simply what was said explictily. The moral teaching its readers to be greatful for what you have because in the long run, theres something special about it that can help you achieve something greater. However, in the graphic novel it gave the example of the American Born Chinese tale, and my viewpoints was the same compared to the tale of Outer suberia, simple and self explaintory. The author of the Graphic Novels and its journey pointed out the representation of immigrantion in that tale, it was an suprisingly interesting view point that opened my mind to more options on morals and point of views.

Post #6: trickster tales by matt dembicki

Once I've noticed the title of the tales after reading them, it fit perfect with the concept of the tales. For both of the tales i feel like the morals differ a bit, however they both resemble greed. The first tale does not have a moral to me, it was just episodes of a raven continously being greedy throughout the comic. It kind of should a moral towards the beginging, but it turned out to be just one of the many scenes in which the raven is being greedy. However, the second tale had a clear moral of the mink and his fish. For lieing to the wolf about not being hunger just to not share the fish, shows how greedy the mink was. Then once the wolf tricks him into thinking he ate the fish, he does not even feel hungry anymore. This showing he didnt really need two fish to eat in the first place, he hasnt even eaten one fish and he is already full. The wolf won in the long run, of getting the two fish to eat which i find ironic in the sense of the whole comic being about the minks hunger and the struggle for the mink to get the fish in the first place.

Post #5: American Born Chinese by Genu lune yang

The comic of american born chinese was very interesting, and ten times more understandable then the sandman by Neil Gaimen. The comic was clear in making its points to the readers, there was no points of cofusion while reading the comic. All the images the comic that was showed allowed readers to understand the reading better, instead of conveying a diffferent story then the text like the sandman had done. Even though the scenes were not in modern day form/times, it was clear to the readers what was taking place. The moral of the comic was clearly interpretted one the ending had tooken place. The Monkey king was treated badly because of who he was, and then reacted in killing everyone at the dinner party. He then takes his strengths to a whole new level and is conviced of being capable of doing everything, and being greater than all the gods. Until he meets his god, the one who created him, and even thinks he can beat him as well. He believes it is true, until the god smothers him under a ton of rocks where he stays defeated. This comic displayed an obvious moral, and I am glad to have understood the comic clearly this time.

Post #4: Sandman vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

When reading the actually comic of the Sandman, it was a bit confusing to understand. There is alot of details in the comic, that are stated directly. It is the kind of comic that involes more thinking and critcally lenses versus other comics I have read previously. Comics are usually easy to read, and have more comedy to it then the one of the Sandman. The Sandman comic didnt have much comedy at all, it was more on the werid/out of the ordinary side. Alot of comics flow easily, and get striaght to the point. However, Gaiman took some time to get to the point of story, and why certain events were happening. For example, the scene of discovering why people were experiencing decades worth of just sleeping. I had the idea of it being connected to the beginging when the cermoney for the "death" had failed, but it wasnt clear till the ending. Overall, the time taken to get to the resolution of the story, made the comic more interesting to read, & keep my attention. Reading the second text by Ally Bribsin and Paul Booth, defiantly cleared some unclear thoughts on the comic. It also answered some of my questions of popularity of the comic.

Post #3: American Indian Myths and Legends

After reading "American Indian Myths and Legends" by Richard Erodes and Alfonso Ortiz, it open my mind to different kinds of folklore I never thought of before. By that meaning, this kind of myths and tales are not your average day tot day superstitions that have been around since my parent childhood. These myths are the kinds of myths historians take insight in discovering what the Indians day looked like, and under covering there knowledge of the place they've made home. When reading the different tales given by the reading, the author mentioned the instability/inconsistency of the story, and that's one thing that stood out the most. Most of the tales, the ending or even the middle of the story changed completely from the toll my mind thought it would take. I have to say, the unexpected events occurring within the tales make the tales interesting to read. It gives a the readers an kind of drive to read the next tale and see what weird turn that tale is going to give. Also, it kind of makes me wonder the mindset of the Indians around the time the folklore was created, what kind of events were occurring at the moment that gave them the crazy ideas to just throw into these tales. For example, the tale of the grizzly bears, in the beginning of the tale took an direction of talking about the earth and the different people controlling what grows on the planet, and the creation of it a bit. Basically, it sidetracked from the title of the grizzly bears, so when the bears were brought up in the story it was a surprise. I had to go back to the title to remember what the tales main focus was.

Post 2: The Three Wishes by Ricardo E. Alegria

The tales all seem very interesting, however the second tale stood out to me greater than the other tales. It wasn't like the other two in the sense of it actually being "made up". The other two tales could of had some truth to it, considering it involved real life interactions. This tale involved an inanimate small ant, who couldn't communicate its feelings to the world, however it showed existence of god nevertheless. It can be inferred, who ever created the tale believed that god is the answer to everything regardless of the situation or species. Folktales created without truth to it, display a greater moral ending then those with some truth to it in my mind. It shows the imagination of ones mind in a certain time period, and its relation to the development of their culture's history in the sense of religion, education and moral, greater than the moral endings of the other two tales in which some may disagree. The first tale with Juan, was a bit confusing. I was confused in the sense of what exactly the moral was. The last tale seemed like something I already heard previously, being the most probable reasons why the second tale of the ant in search of her leg was the most interesting to me