Day Seventeen

Time for day seventeen. At first, I thought this blog would be super difficult. I was slightly wrong, but now it's time to get over it and write this blog...


I was reading the story, The Wooden Tablet, and I must say, it was quite interesting. There's a 12 year old boy, named K'ang P'u (how in the world do you pronounce that?) who lives with his father, Mr. Lin (reference to MY story =D). Mr. Lin leaves the village that the two live in to go to the city for some reason, leaving his son all alone in their hut with the magical Wooden Tablet (which belonged to Lin's father), the only thing they have worth keeping. Unfortunately, during that time, soldiers were coming to loot the village that the two live in.


So, After touching the tablet (which K'ang P'u wasn't supposed to do) and working in the garden all day, K'ang hears a sound. The robbers are nearby, and are burning huts next to his. So, he grabs the tablet and runs out of the hut (with soldiers in pursuit) and into a nearby field. There, he spends many days, consumed with hunger. After a few days, a little dwarf appears on the wooden tablet. This dwarf, happens to be the spirit of K'ang's grandfather. The grandfather agrees to help K'ang escape the soldiers by sending him to the palace where his ancestors used to live in. He instructs the young boy to go to sleep. After K'ang wakes up, he appears in the palace of which his ancestors used to live. After being escorted inside, he meets his father, who was waiting for him. the two hug, and thank the grandfather for everything he'd done.


Let's put this in order:


Comparison:


The stories, The Strange Tale of Doctor Dog, and The Wooden Tablet, have essentially nothing in common, but they do have a few things worth noting. One thing they have in common is a parent and a child featured in both stories. Also in both stories, the children are young (of course. But I said child, so I assumed you would assume that I meant son/daughter or something). Another thing is that there are three main characters, two of which are in the story most of the time. Also, the two stories contain magical castles (Mr. Chien's castle, and the castle of the ancestors) that become the final setting for the story. One more thing: the stories both take place in small villages. That's about it for comparisons, now onto contrasts.


Differences:


The Strange Tale of Doctor Dog does not include spirits in the story. Also, the child in my story is a girl, while the child in the other story is a boy. There is not a magical tablet in my story. No one in my story is trying to escape anything. There are no soldiers in my story. As for the other story, there is not a dog. No one becomes sick in the other story, and no major characters are kidnapped (but unimportant ones are). Also, no one flies kites in the other story. That's about it for differences, now onto something else.


The message in my story is about hope. You really should know this already, but apparently I have to say it again. I'm not quite sure what the message in the other story is (I don't really think it has one). All that really happens is a boy being  saved magically by a dead person, which can't possibly happen in real life and which can't possibly mean anything other than a boy got lucky with magic (wow that doesn't sound right...). Oh well, it was still a fun read. Now just to wait for day eighteen... 


Have a nice day =D