Reading Notes Week 10: Jakarta Tales Part B

For this assignment, I chose the Elephant Girly-Face jakarta.

(This image is taken from the site I found this story from. It can be sourced here.)


The story starts out describing the personality of an elephant owned by a king. The elephant's name is "Girly-Face" because of how gentle his features and personality were. Apparently, there were some robbers that broke into his sanctuary and talking about how robbers have to be ruthless and able to kill. Girly-Face overheard this and thought this was a teaching moment, that he too had to have this mentality. From then on, Girly-Face started attacking anyone trying to come into his sanctuary. It got so bad that the workers had to leave food for him without interacting with him and get the king involved. The king figured out that Girly-Face overheard some robbers and probably took to heart what they said. He then had some "good" people talk in front of Girly-Face so he would learn positive behavior, which he did.

Personal comments: I thought elephants were pretty intelligent and have superb memory i.e. I have heard of elephants attacking people who attacked them from years ago. I think knowing this, an elephant wouldn't blindly follow a stranger's advice like this, but then again, this jakarta isn't supposed to be too literal and was before this was probably widely-known. I liked the elements of the elephant, king, and following instruction blindly (no matter its consequence), which I can maybe use in a retelling.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Author: Ellen C. Babbit
Title: The Elephant Girly-Face
Story can be sourced here.

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