LITERATURE QUESTIONS
FOLK LITERATURE
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The Tortoise and the Hare
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Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother
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King Arthur
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The Stealing of Thor’s Hammer
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.
Detailed explanation-2: -"The Tortoise and the Hare” is a folktale. It is actually a specific type of folktale called a fable.
Detailed explanation-3: -The tortoise continues to move very slowly but without stopping and finally it wins the race. The moral lesson of the story is that you can be more successful by doing things slowly and steadily than by acting quickly and carelessly.
Detailed explanation-4: -’The Tortoise and the Hare’ is a fable about a cocky Hare and a slow moving Tortoise that challenge each other to a race. A fable is a fictitious story, usually with animals as characters, that relays a moral or lesson at the end.
Detailed explanation-5: -The White Hare and the Crocodiles is a folk tale from old Japan. Other than in most other stories the hare is unlucky with his deceit. While he first successfully deceives the crocodiles, his schadenfreude and arrogance leads to his capture. He then encounters a fairy and this acquaintance changes his life.