Trickster tales
What happens in a trickster tale?
A character plays a trick on another character.
Why did Hare want to become Business Partners with Hare?
Hare wanted to provide food for his family.
What did the sky God ask Zomo to do to earn wisdom?
Three impossible things: Fish scales, Milk from a Wild Cow, and a Tooth from a leopard.
Why is Vulture jealous of Jabuti?
How did Monkey and turtle share the tree?
Each of the got half. Monkey got the top half and Turtle got the other half.
What do trickster tales include
A lesson
A trickster
Problem and solution
What tricks did Hare play?
He gave bear all the bad parts of the crop.
What are some of the tricks he played?
He played the drums loudly so that the fish would dance. Dancing made his scales come off.
He got the wild cow angry and the cow got stuck on the palm tree.
He made the leopard slip with the milk and the scales.
How did vulture trick Jabuti?
He let Jabuti climb on his back and dropped him on the way to the festival.
What happened to Monkey's part of the tree?
It did not grow any bananas.
Talking animals
Magic
What was the lesson of this book?
To work hard for your own things and to not be lazy.
What happened at the end of the book?
The sky God told Zomo he had a lot of courage. But told him to run fast because the animals were going to chase him.
What was the lesson?
You should not be jealous of others.
How did turtle outsmart monkey in the end?
Turtle pretended to be scared of water so that monkey would throw her in the river.