This
week for my story unit I have decided to read The Monkey King story unit from
the Asia section of stories. I decided
to read this story because of the title of the unit. I decided to select this week’s unit based on
title alone so I didn’t know what the story would be about when I selected it.
As it
turns out the Monkey King is a very popular story in Chinese culture. Sun Wu Kung is the name of the monkey king
and his story is well known across all of China. The story is set up as somewhat of a story of
enlightenment and to my knowledge it will evolve into a lesson in
Buddhism.
The
first half of this story is very interesting to me because of the real life
applications you can draw from the content.
The characters are animals and they are clearly living in a fantasy
setting but the lessons and metaphors can be considered in a scope of reality
without a doubt. I think that stories
that can incorporate elements of fantasy and reality simultaneously are some of
the most successful stories written.
These kind of stories provide entertaining tales for children, but when
the children grown up and re-read these tales they can see the lessons they
were being taught at a young age. It
takes a legitimate kind of creativity and writing talent to accomplish a story
that can have this kind of affect.
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| The Monkey King by Yoshitoshi Image taken from the UnTextBook |
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