“A Rhetorical and Sociolinguistic Model for the Analysis of Narrative” by Karen Ann Watson

In this text, “A Rhetorical and Sociolinguistic Model for the Analysis of Narrative” by Karen Ann Watson, I didn't like it. It was hard for me to understand this text I felt like there was a lot of things going on and alot of different titles and authors name beginning throw around in this text and she supports her argument by agreeing or disagreeing with the resources she puts in her text.I agree with her when she states Claude Levi-Strauss piece, "The Structural Study of Myth"  where it says "myth is language...it is a part of human speech"(244). I also feel like myth is a language because different myths can be only understood by different ethnicity. In different cultures there are different myths even if in some other culture the myths can be similar to your culture.

American Indian Myths and Legends Ed. by Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz

I found this text interesting because it talk about native american cultures and their beliefs how they talk about the sun, moon ,water and wind with value. I also like how they call everything spirit as if everything had a meaning or a purpose. I like the myth "When Grizzlies Walk Upright " in this reading because it explained the way the Indians were created as people.The grizzly and a human falling in love, the idea of the creation of the first Native American ancestors made me connect to a movie I watched where it is about god creating Adam and he was the only human then he create Eve to company him and they were in love and they were the first creation of human life. I think it is amazing how till this day this myth still has affects on Native American regardless of how long it has been. They still do not kill grizzlies because they believe that this story is real.
Also, reading this text connects to what i said on the last post #3 where native american's were forced into converting in to Christianity and changing and erasing there actual history.

"Porto Rican Folklore"

I think this article "Porto Rican Folklore" by Peter J. Hamilton was interesting because I am currently taking a class called Puerto Rican Latio Studies and we talk about the beginning of how America formed and how the spaniards toke over.I like how original the culture is and the text going into detail about what the people of the Puetro Rican culture believed, and it talks about different topics like music, animals and more. 
According to Hamilton, the West Indies have been known to practice witchcraft derived from Africa but, in my Puerto Rican Latio Studies class I learned that the spaniards called the African believe and culture as witchcraft because the spaniards wanted everybody to be Chirstian and forces people to convert or they will be killed. Many converted but secretly they still practiced there own believe and if the spainards were suspicious of them practicing there own believe instead of Christianity then they would pull that person out and say they were practicing witchcraft which is evil and would kill them.

"the sociopsychological analysis of folktakes" by J.L. Fisher

In the reading "The Sociopsychological Analysis of Folktales" by J. L. Fischer he said "likewise, if there are any rank differences in a society, there is generally an over-supply of tale characters who either occupy or achieve high rank, whereas the majority of the members of the society are obviously of lower rank"(239) which i didn't really understand. Is he trying to say that some myths are told more then others so some myths are more famous or is he saying the richer people tell myths to poorer people and the poorer people would make some of the myths popular because they tell everyone. 

Something interesting reading this was how folktales are influenced by technology, economy, politics, and society. People interaction and making conversations,makes folktales grow.People create folktales, but after that they expand, people tell it in all different versions. Stories being mixed up, being written, the original told myths might be lost. The folktales serve to teach lessons and to entertain, but they can also divide human cultures into a continuous expansion.

"The Roles of Fables in Human Life" by Edward Clayton

In the article "The Roles of Fables in Human Life" by Edward Clayton, he explains what is the purpose of fables.Clayton believes that fables have much more meaning than what they are seem as. He says that humans are much like animals and fables are mainly portrayed as animals because of the Athenians, They believed that there is a strong connection between how animal behaves and human behavior. Clayton believes that we shouldn't be comparing ourselves to animals because, it feels like he is trying to say humans are more superior then animals. He states in this article “Why should we choose to act like animals when we can choose not to and when we can create an environment in which acting like an animal is unnecessary (197).” I believe that humans and animals are connected in some sorts of ways but humans is the ones who dominate because we have a mind and we think, we question about the world unlike the animals, they don't think, or at least they don't think they way humans do. I think the Aesop's reminds humans how we are not pointless that we are all here for a reason , humans established democracy, justice, and moral code, we use them to "plan for the future, and change their environment and behavior" (198). Although we are like animals, we are not any ordinary animal, we are remarkable people that have our own voice, own opinion and we can make choices in our lives. In fables people can relate to the animal characters portrayed because the fables gave the animals human like personalities, which makes people feel like they can relate to the animals but then if the characters were written as humans people might not be willing to admit that they can relate because they think whatever happen to the characters are just another story, like movies we watch. For example, in a movie someone has cancer, we would think that's just a movie, it's not real so it won't happen to you but the truth is we all have a chance of getting cancer, but we just don't want to believe that this can actually happen to ourselves. Also, some people who are reading fables might just look at it as a story with no meaning.