While I was scrolling down the Korean folktales, one story’s title caught my eye. That story was called “The Rabbit’s Liver”. At first, when I read the title, I was extremely disgusted by it because really, who would want to read a story about a liver, especially maybe about a dying rabbit’s liver! But then, I’m the type of person who likes to read those weird/unusual stories anyway, so I clicked on the link.
To my relief, there were no bloody livers or dead rabbits and it was simply just a normal folktale with a lesson involved. This folktale, “The Rabbit’s Liver” first was boring, considering that I thought it would be much more gross, but later on, when I read it again and again, I realized, wow, it’s not as weird as I thought it would be. But, I guess while reading this story, it showed me how stupid living beings could be sometimes. In this folktale, I think whoever the author was, was trying to tell us that humans do the most stupid mistakes sometimes and we don’t even notice it until something bad happens. You see, the Dragon King believes in the rabbit’s silly lie, but the turtle who brought the rabbit to the Dragon Kingdom should know that a liver is inside the body because all reptiles have livers. But, the rabbit got away, which literally blew me away from the stupidity of the Dragon Kingdom and especially, the stupidity of the Dragon King.
Sometimes, I wonder why the author wrote this story, to gross us out in the beginning or to make us wonder, what in the world is this? But I guess, the author just wrote it to show us a lesson, but to also let us just read it for fun. Seriously, in reality, books are just for reading and for relaxation, not to just know everything about it. I mean, if I had to read for understan...
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...se well, the rabbit just tricked the DRAGON KING, and that is not good. Reading this didn’t change me or make me think, “Wow, I learned something.” But, I guess after reading this folktale, I can learn more lesson in life one step at a time. Anyways, after reading this not gross, weird but normal story, I realized 2 things: Don’t or try not to do stupid mistakes in life and secondly, sometimes they can hurt people around you, so don’t do it!” There are such causes where people do little mistakes, but some people can create the biggest mistakes in their lives that they don’t know what to do anymore. But, I guess it’s not their fault to act like such a “seaweed brain”. Life goes on, and so do they; we learn from mistakes but like in this story, there are consequences, but I’m sure we can get over them if we try hard because that’s why we were created, to do something.
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