Cade Posner

 Two Losses Georgian Folk Tales, by Marjory Wardrop (1894). I really enjoyed this story, it might even be my favorite for the whole semester. In this tale their is a scholar and a boat captain aboard a vessel. As a big storm approaches the captain barks out orders. The scholar can not understand him and after the storm passes asks the captain if he had ever learned to speak correctly. A few hours later an even stringer storm appears shrining a leak in the boat. The captain goes up to the scholar and ask if he knows how to swim. The scholar says no. The captain informs him that his crew and himself will swim ashore safely and he will die. He states he should have learned to swim instead of being able to speak correctly.  For me this story depicts todays world of being street smart vs book smart. In my opinion some of the smartest individuals in the world are actually street smart and have very little academic knowledge. Though a good balance of the two will lead one far in life...

The Story of the Fisherman The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).  This story focuses on a fisherman so old and so poor that he could scarcely manage to support his wife and three children. He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times. A large cloud of smoke appears after crying out to a Genie, a glass jar appears. A huge monster comes out, he begs for saving. The story basically goes on to where the Genie is going to kill the fisherman. Though the fisherman order the genie to tell him a story. The fisherman then plays a wonderful trick on the genie, which then transitions into the fisherman as storyteller, with the genie as his audience. This was a pretty confusing story to follow but I like when the little guy in stories wins. In this case the fisherman was able to overcome and end up not getting killed. It seems his life is much better now even after all his...