Monday, March 30, 2015

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.

1 comment:

  1. It is possible that the mink was actually hungry but its discovery of fish remains in its teeth acted as a kind of placebo effect to make it feel full. If viewed in this light, the mink seems like less of a greedy character.

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