Since I’m half Puerto Rican, I heard words like bobo a lot. I
always knew that it meant dumb or dimwitted. I had also heard the name Juan
Bobo, but I never knew who he was, and just thought it was some made up thing,
or some celebrity. After reading about Juan Bobo, it was interesting to see
that all along it was some character from tales told in Puerto Rico. However, I
didn’t understand what the points of the tale “Juan Bobo, the Sow and the
Chicks”. The only message that I really saw was that if you are stupid, then
you should be punished. If you are a dimwit, well be punished. I don’t think
that message is such a great message. I would have understood if he did it on
purpose, but Juan didn’t know better. He thought he was helping out in a great
way although any other person would know it wasn’t the brightest thing to do.
I also found it interesting how religious people are. With the tale of "The in Search of Her Leg", the message was that God is above all. When reading the tale, I thought it was going to give a message that you are your strongest person, but instead it turned out to be that God is above everything, and thus the ant left happy to find this out. Only people who are very religious would make this a message, and this sounds like a story that would we told to a church class to explain that God is above all.
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