Journal Entry 9: Analyze a Folk Tale

"Coyote Kills the Giant" is a folk tale that attempts to explain that wood ticks are flat because they were flattened by the giants teeth as they were escaping from it. Although folk tales are amusing to read, they are never accurate, and they are predictable much of the time. Probably the most known example of a folk tale would be the tale of the tortoise and the hare. In this folk tale, a hare and a tortoise have a race, to see who is faster. During the race, the hare is so far ahead and so confident that he will win that he stops under a tree and takes a nap. While he is napping, the tortoise catches up, and passes the hare. When the hare wakes up, he sees how far ahead the tortoise is, and runs as fast as he can, but the tortoise still wins. The belief this story explains is "slow and steady wins the race". This basically means that it doesn't matter how far ahead you are in something, if you pause to take a rest, then someone who is working slowly but steadily will pass you, so you should always try as hard as you can when you are doing something.