Reading Notes: The Giant Crab, Part B

The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India 

by W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. Robinson

The Quail and The Falcon:

• This sentence is a good example of how over complicating a sentence just hinders the telling of the story. I can hardly make sense of this: "Not a bit of it; he must needs better himself, as he said; so one fine day he flew away over the farm, away to the forest which fringed it; and, alighting on the ground just where the forest began, he looked about to see if there was anything good to eat."
• I like that the quail used pride to trick the falcon
• I feel like this story doesn't really have a strong moral lesson. It seems that the lesson would be "stick to the things you know" however, the falcon could have met his demise in this way anywhere, not just on this farm.
• Concept: Falcon and Quail are the pilot names of two air crafts engaged in a dog fight. The falcon is the better of the two planes but the Quail uses cunning to trick the Falcon into nosediving out of control.

  

  A falcon swooping in on its prey