Twenty-Two Goblins: Reading Diary A

The King and the Goblin from the UnTextbook

• The king seems to be awfully generous.
• Why does the goblin decide to tell the king a story
• “So they stayed there all three of them day and night, feasting on the beauty of her face”
• There seem to be a lot of stories with marriages as the central driving force
• Lots of mentions of the moon
• The names are really interesting.
• Spotless, the dad, is extremely comforting to his son, White
• ““People honour this goddess with all kinds of living sacrifices. Why should I not win her favour by sacrificing myself?" And he fetched a sword from a deserted inner room, cut off his own head, and let it fall on the floor.” Um, what?
• There seems to be a pattern of three
• The king is surprisingly devoted to bringing the goblin back
• “Discouragement never enters the brave heart of a resolute man.”
• This was the only tale that revolved around four people instead of three.  Interesting.
• The interest in the stars and the moon seem to be really significant, but I’m not sure why.  It seems to be associated with beauty and other good things though.
• “The very delicacy which is so great a virtue, is positively inconvenient”
• It seems like a running theme throughout all the stories that the values, virtues, or gifts actually become somewhat worthless in the grand scheme of things.