How We Got the Name "Spider Tales"
Characters:
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Nyankupon
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Anansi
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Tiger
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Bees
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Boa
Plot: To bring
Nyankupon what he wanted to prove that the tales should be named after Anansi.
The spider used his wit to capture everything Nyankupon wanted and sent it back
to him. I thought the spider was very clever. I can think of someone people and
children that are like the spider that are clever to get what they want. I was
shocked at how the spider was able to convince the tiger to sew up his eyes. I was
also surprised that the spider lived through those encounters.
How Wisdom Became the Property of the Human Race
Characters:
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Father Anansi
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Kweku Tsin
Plot: Father
Anansi wanted to keep all of his knowledge from the country’s men because they
usually came to him for guidance. He planned to hide his knowledge so he put
all of it in a pot and set out to find the tallest tree so that no one could
reach it. He was followed by his son who turned out to contain more knowledge
than father Anansi.
I thought this story was extremely short, but it had a good
moral.
Anansi and Nothing
Characters:
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Anansi
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Nothing
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Nothing’s wife
Plot: Anansi and
Nothing wanted to find a wife. Anansi did not have money like Nothing so he convinced
Nothing to switch him clothes. All of the women were attracted to Anansi
because they thought he had money. They
were tricked. Nothing was then killed by Anansi and his wife was so distraught
that she fed all of the children yams so that they could cry with her.
This was my favorite tale I read because of the lesson at
the end of the story. That the children were “crying for nothing.”
A child crying for nothing.
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