https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq Made with a warm hug en-us 2016-11-17 15:54:11 UTC 2016-12-05 17:04:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138459319 "Pan Gu was the first living being. His eyes became the sun and the moon, his breath became the wind, and his voice thunder."
Pan Gu is like God, a supernatural being. He places an egg on a mountain to start the story. Eggs symbolize birth and life, the beginning of the story.]]> 2016-11-17 16:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138459319 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138461364 All  monkeys are cunning, but when monkey came out of the egg, he was made the king because he was the most cunning.
Tricksters are cunning. This explains why he is a trickster.]]> 2016-11-17 16:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138461364 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138462336 Monkey realizes one day that he is going to die eventually. This shows relates to the contrast of innocence and happiness and not thinking about death.]]> 2016-11-17 16:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138462336 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138463639 After learning about immortality from the Buddha, Monkey can do supernatural thing. "By the end of years of training... he could turn himself into anything he wanted to be, or fly through the skies on a cloud. He had also found the way to live forever" (Ardagh 44).]]> 2016-11-17 16:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138463639 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138739409 Monkey steals weapons and stands up for the other monkeys. Also, Monkey wants to be important. He doesn't care about the right things. He is made the Guardian of the Garden of Immortal Peaches, where the peaches make you immortal.]]> 2016-11-18 15:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138739409 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138742857 Monkey feels guilty after he eats all of the immortality peaches, a human trait. Although, it does not last for long. He runs from the immortals, until the Buddha catches him and tricks him into being defeated.]]> 2016-11-18 16:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138742857 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138746767 "In some interpretations of this popular tale, the Monkey King represents human nature with both its virtues and its weaknesses" (Schomp 78).]]> 2016-11-18 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/138746767 dimarcello20194714 https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/139137751 The tricksters, Prometheus from Greek myths and Monkey from Chinese myths, display two main characteristics of a trickster; cunning and determined.]]> 2016-11-21 16:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dimarcello20194714/iwar7lep9qyq/wish/139137751