Week 6 Reading Diary: Jamaica Anansi Stories

Reading Diary Week 6 - Jamaica Anansi Stories

• So this is a continuation story, neat
• Wait, how does he NOT realize it’s the same person who tied him up and stole his mangos? Really? Stupid lion.
• So… are they all human in these tales?
• Yep, they’re apparently human
• Anansi only ever wants to eat.
• Oh no! Poor Lion :(
• …. So they’re animals? At least Lion is?
• More parallels, yay
• Is Anansi the only smart one in these tales? At least it’s not about food this time (hungry)
• Hey look, someone outsmarted him (somewhat)
• Oh, it’s apparently also spelled Hanansi.
• Never seen Anansi with a family before, neat.
• Candle-fly? Ooo, I gotta use that somewhere
• Hah, smart Tiger knows the game by now
• Getting the hang of the dialect now, just gotta keep singing “Jamaica, we have a bobsled team”
• My friend who took this class last year rewrote this one with cookies  and her roommate. It was really clever
• WAIT HE PULLED OUT HIS GUTS WHAT KIND OF HORROR STORY IS THIS?!!!!
• EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW!!!!!
• I can’t believe nyam means eat, is that where we got nom from?
• Uh-oh. This sounds bad
• Almost all of these are about eating, jeez
• Ananasi sounds a lot like Loki in this one
• O.O
• ……. Anansi is… not okay. He reminds me a lot of Loki
• Haha, Ram got his beard dumped in the Bog of Eternal Stench!
• I love how interconnected these things are
• It was only fresh beef? Well, in that case my pity is inspired
• Jeez it’s like a Marvel comic - nobody stays dead
• When are the times not hard?
• Hah, outsmarted by his own kid.
• Lots of these are retold in other units, kinda neat
• Okay, I’m just really confused with Anansi and the Tar-Baby
• Oh look, Anansi finally got tricked
• Once again, I like the way these are turning out now
• Anansi sure is a glutton
• Anansi is really a sadistic glutton
• Well, at least he’s good at running
• Anansi eats his food, and Fish thinks he’s a cousin?
• So he’s the first one to eat fish, okay then.
• Oh no, that’s a bad idea.
• This fire thing is great, really like this one
• That one was rather profound, actually
• Anansi is just plain evil.
• There’s a lot of marriage trials in these kind of tales
• This is sounding like the hole at the bottom of the sea song
• How can a butchered cow drink water?
• Haha, of course the Cat would.

 

"Jamaica we have a bobsled team" is from the movie Cool Runnings, about the first Jamaican Olympic bobsled team.

 

Bog of Eternal Stench is from the Jim Henson movie Labyrinth.