Week Twelve Reading: The Hypocritical Cat

For this week's choice of free reading, I went back to last week, which got messed up due to the ice storm and the election, etc. I went with the story that caught my attention the most, The Hypocritical Cat, because of the name to be honest. I feel like all cats would be very hypocritical if they could be. I wanted to dive into more of the Jataka tales because they have become my favorite stories. I almost wish that for my project I had chosen to make a portfolio of the Jataka tales, as opposed to just random animals. I think these stories encompass much more moral storytelling, rather than random bits of stories. I really enjoyed this story because it is about exactly what it sounds like. I want to use this story in place of the previous story that I figured I might want to use in my project. This is just a backup for now, but there is a good chance that this could be the story that I decide to go with. This story is very whimsical and tells a really good story that would be fit for children to learn from, but also for adults to be able to take something out of. I think it would be neat to re-write the story from the perspective of the rats, or maybe set the story in a human group. There is a lot of things that I could do with this story in order to tell a new and revised story, just with different characters.

Image information: The Hypocritical Cat - W. Robinson

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