Post 7: Trickster Tales Ed. by Matt Dembicki

I really enjoyed these short stories. They were short and simple to follow, and the messages were clear. It was interesting how both stories somewhat contrasted. With the Raven’s story, he got away with being a trickster and did not get any punishment for what he did. Instead, he got away free and easily manipulated people to get this way. I feel that happens a lot in our world today, in that bad people get away with things when instead there should be consequences for their actions. I feel as though people should not just see what good they are getting for themselves, but instead what harm they are doing to the people around them. If people realized what affects their actions have on others, they may think twice before doing whatever it is they do.

The story with the wolf and the mink had more of what I expected with the first story. The mink got his way by tricking two fish into being caught. Once he did, he cooked the fish. When the wolf came along, we thought the mink would share, which did not happen. Instead, the wolf got the mink to sleep, stole the fish and the mink was tricked. This showed that you should not be greedy, or karma will stab you back. The thing is, the mink did not even realize he had his fish stolen so for all we know the mink will repeat his doings again. In addition, what did the wolf learn? To steal from someone if they do not share? If that is the case, then no one learned anything. We as readers learn something, but if these are actual being in the story, they themselves did not learn anything, which can lead them to commit the same actions as preciously done.