Taiwei Chang

Long times ago, a human's spirit had been separated by a witch into two parts. Half is a brave soul, another one is a coward soul. He asked the witch to move the brave soul into his body and keep his coward soul in a box.  In this era, people were suffering from rampant monsters. He decided to kill every monster and bring peace to humans. Since the part of his soul which represents the coward had been eliminated by the witch, he had no fear when he faces any of the monsters.  When his sword was cut out, his cloak was dyed red by monsters' blood, tranquility returns to the human's society. People eulogized him and thanked him for his bravery.  However, one day, someone told him, "There is a temple in the mountains, a monster transferred itself into a monk. It eats every people who stay in the temple." He had no hesitated and went to that temple.  In the temple, he saw that monk and said, "Do not struggle, and I will kill you in one second". But, the monk

This story is part of the Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki) unit . Story source: Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908). Today, I have been read the story -  The Ogre of Rashomon . I am marveled at the protagonist's brave and power and the wonderful plot. For the plot, Watanabe could not kill the ogre when he first met it. He tried but failed. Even at the end of the story, he still could not kill the ogre. This plot set gives me an inspiration that I do not need to eliminate the evil in my own storybook. Nevertheless, I still could get a happy ending. Just like the story, the ogre escapes from Wantanabe's house, and it would never trouble Kyoto again.  Next, descriptions of the character's actions in this story are also excellent. For instance, "he seized his sword, drew it out of its sheath in a flash, and tried to cut the ogre down". This sentence is so vivid and immersive since the detailed depiction of the behavior of Watanabe. After reading this, I re

This story is part of the Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki) unit . Story source: Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908). This is a very interesting and impressive story. Actually, this is the first time that I read the Japanese myth. The story tells that a brave warrior Hidesato helps the Drago King of the lake to kill his enemy - a huge centipede. I was shocked by the story's depiction of different scenes. For example, when Hidesato first met the dragon, the story said, "Its body was so big that it looked like the trunk of a large pine tree, and it took up the whole width of the bridge. One of its huge claws rested on the parapet of one side of the bridge, while its tail lay right against the other. The monster seemed to be asleep, and as it breathed, fire and smoke came out of its nostrils." I would say that this paragraph gives me many inspirations about how to describe a specific object. First, the author compares the dragon's body to a pine tree. This proc