The Bird of Happiness
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What is this story about
- About a Tibetan village where people where poor and suffering (discuss reasons and the role of natural resources in human life)
- A boy's search to help his village
- About the boy's virtues, ethics and how that helps the village
- We are introduced to the customs in the village
- Names and characters in the Tibetan mythology
Additional Information
Life and culture in Tibet
Compilations of Tibetan folk tales
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/14201/11/11_chapter%204.pdf Folk Tales and Ethics-1
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.in/2014/03/myth-folklore-unit-tibetan-folk-tales.html Folk Tales and Ethics-2
http://manybooks.net/titles/sheltonaother05tibet.html More folk tales
http://levigilant.com/Bulfinch_Mythology/bulfinch.englishatheist.org/tibet/Tibet.htm More Tibetan stories
http://www.inyatrust.com/editor/uploads/7/5/2/9/7529832/185003695108296584_10th_english_question_bank_-2014-15.pdf
Language used in the story
- Translated text
- Who is the translator?
- Some vocabulary specific to mountains
- Some vocabulary which is a slang is also used (for grandfather, etc)
- Written in the past tense
- Third person narrative