Post #5

This article is well written, a lot of research put into this piece of writing.  I feel like it was a lot to take in with all the different authors and writers.  But anyways i liked how the author od this pice focuses a lot on the aspect of oral traditions of myths.  How basically where myths start off from and how different writers found different ways to see the importance of these myths and the oral tradition.  Also what i got from reading this piece was the structure of these myth and how they are catergories as images.  Another important aspect to mythology is all about language, like how Kenneth Burke said it changed over the years.  Burke also touched on the iideas how "verbal acts to be symbolic" and i agree. In myths theres a lot of symbolism, even the characters/ animals you choose have a meaning behind it and the type of animals(mostly are featured in myths and folktales) have a symbolic importance to each story.  This article wasnt my favorite, i felt like there was a lot going on, it was rather long and a lot of authors and writers all thrown into this piece that it was hard to keep up.  However this is a educating piece, i really like the intake of wat each author and writer thought about myths/folktales.  This artiel basically broke down each adn every part that makes up myths and things i didnt even know as that important, like language.  Each country or origin of a myth has a different laungue but how we use the language, and the tone.  Well over all i thought this article was helpful, just too long to read. 

Post #3

The reading "Three Wishes" was enjoyable and different.  These three folktales are different from any folktale we've readin class or what I've read independently.  After reading these short stories, thinking that i was just another short tale, but after reading thr article I now know it was about Puerto Rician nationality.  In the article it says now in the puertoican culture likes to use Mimas a certain way and how each animal has a different spiritual meaning.  Out of the three stories of the "Three Wishes" I liked the most was the witch one. I personally never believed in witches but I believe I heard of a version on how to get rid of a wicked witch before. It was smart of the husband to foil her human skin with salt and cooking ingredients, if I were him I would have tried to melt her with some boiling water.  The ant storie was a bit confusing to follow, I got that he kept asking and he got another answer to another answer and th final answer he got last was confusing. If his little foot was stuck then how does god king give him the answer of something like when you leave home you will have your foot again. How will he have his little foot if it was stuck the whole time and he was asking for someone to help him get unstuck? But also I found it interesting in how it all lead to god as the answer, shows how most stories and cultures will always relate it to religion.  The one with the boy, the sow and the chicks was funny. Little kids don't know any better I remember how I was younger and I took instructions from my parnts and grandparents too literal, thinking I was doing everything right but in the emd I got yelled t just like the boy. I think it wasn't the nosy fault at all, he's young and he doesn't know any better. Kids have a great imagination so you would have to give a kid literal directions or don't let them in charge of such important task. To me I don't find puertoican stories and folktales any different from th American or Chinese folktales I hear about, they just need an origin to come from. Some stories might have a specific origin from only on culture because of how the culture is. I liked reading the three short stories, some we're confusing but still interesting .

Post #2

In "The Sociopsychological Analysis of Folktales" by J.L Fischer, Fisher mentions the aspect of these folktales and how to some people they are just tall tales told to younger children but to others it is a tradition to tell these myths and stories with animals portraying human chatcteristics. Fischer also mentions Folklore in European parts and how it focuses on nationalism, I thought that folklores were fake stories so how does that symbolizes nationalism. Well if view nationalism as in world wide it is true these stories are told world wide even stories that orginated in Europe or even others hired world countries like china. Throughout the years,each time these stories are told over orally, these stories onus to change, so who knows what the original story actually is. But that is important is moral behind each story.  I feel like Fischer mostly focuses on how these folktales are a bigger picture, it starts off with these folktales and then the importance behinds them is what is really important. I didn't really get all of Fischer's article because it was just so long and a bit hard to comprehend, well for me.  But also Fischer compares folktales to a lot of anthropology and philosophy and anthropology is he study of things like human behavior and etc so what does folktales, animals stories hav to do with the studies of anything, well I think when Fischer mentions anthropology he's talking about in the past and present day people are still studying the importance and the reasoning for Hesse stories and myths that are being told all over the world, mostly to children to teach them lessons on moralality.