The Tiger

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The Tigers Whisker

• Student names

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• Genre Legend and Folktale
• Country and Geographic Region Korea
• Topic Yun Ok wants her husband back to the way
  he was
• Theme Thought, effort and patience

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Motifs

• Sage of the Mountains/Wiseman
• Tiger/beast
• Object needed to obtain Tigers Whisker
• Food/rice
• Mountain

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Genre Characteristics

• Given place of time
• Heroine faces a task
• Self-centered goal
• Repetition
• Tiger! Tiger!
• Concern with people, places and events
• Yun Ok visits the Sage of the Mts.

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Cultural Signifigance

• Rice
• Wisdom
• Patience
• Confucianism
• Love/loyalty to ones family

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Universal Questions

• How much control do I have over my own life?
• What is likely to be my greatest source of
  happiness?
• How can I attempt to achieve my happiness?
• How can I cope with my troubles?
• How does war effect people?

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Plot Elements

• Absentation
• Lack
• Meditation
• Counteraction
• Departure
• Donor tests hero
• Yun Ok passes the test

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Plot Elements

• Provision of magical aid
• Victory
• Initial misfortune is remedied
• Return of hero

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Question 1)

• What is the initial problem for the protagonist?
• The initial problem is that Yun Oks husband has
  returned from war and he is not the same as he
  was before he left. Yun Ok is very unhappy.

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Question 2)

• What initial goal does the protagonist desire?
• The initial goal was to get a potion from the
  Sage of the Mountain that would turn her husband
  back to normal.

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Question 3)

• How does the protagonist set out to solve his or
  her problem and/or obtain his or her goal?
• Yun Ok climbs the moutain to find the Sage of the
  Mountain. The Sage of the Mountain gives Yun Ok
  the task to get a tigers whisker to complete the
  potion.

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Question 4)

• What actions are rewarded or admired? What awards
  are given? By whom? How are the awards
  appropriate for the actions?
• The possession of effort and thought are admired.
  The reward given by the Sage is the knowledge of
  thought, patience, and effort can help her
  husband. The rewards are appropriate for the
  actions because thought, patience, and effort is
  the actions that she used to help her husband and
  the reward is knowing that these actions will
  help.

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Question 5)

• What actions are punished or despised? What
  punishments are given? By whom? How are the
  punishments appropriate for the actions?
• There are no punishments.

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Question 6)

• What cultural traditions, customs, values,
  beliefs, or knowledge are presented in this
  story?
• Confucianism is a belief that is presented in
  this story. Confucianism is a belief that man is
  the center of the universe and mans main goal is
  to find individual happiness. The main aspects
  are loyalty, responsibility, self-discipline,
  self-restraint, the value of learning and how to
  relate to others. These aspects are in addressed
  in The Tigers Whisker.

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Question 7)

• What is the lesson of the story? Support this
  answer with quotes from the text that point to
  this lesson?
• the lesson of the story is that thought, effort
  and patience are, in fact the most important
  ingredients to your potion that you seek. these
  are very valuable qualities to have and they will
  benefit you in many ways, especially in
  relationships.

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Question 8)

• How could the story still speak to us today? How
  might it change in todays society and our
  culture?
• It teaches us how to relate to others and the
  value of patience. The characters and setting
  would be more modern but the lesson will stay the
  same.