This week, I decided to do a normal note-taking style instead of changing it up like I normally do on Tuesdays. The style I consider normal is what I do in most of my lecture classes. I read/listen and take notes on the aspects of the lecture or story that I find most important or that stick out to me most. Taking notes while I read and listen helps me to retain the information better and to stay focused instead of drifting off and daydreaming. I usually will do big headings and then bullets underneath each heading. Sometimes I write in complete sentences, but most of the time it's shorter, more concise notes.
The Elephant and the Tortoise:
The Elephant and the Tortoise:
- elephant used to have eyes that were in proportion to its giant body.
- elephant ate so much at the feasts that the humans and animals shared with each other
- (animals and humans were friends at this time)
- tortoise seemed to be mad that elephant ate more than others
- he wanted to stop the elephant
- tortoise went to elephant's house and began eating in front of him
- this made elephant hungry and jealous, which seemed to be tortoise's plan in bring the food
- elephant was so greedy that when tortoise said he was eating his own eye, the elephant wanted to do the same and offered his eye to be cut
- the food was so good that it distracted the elephant from what he paid
- the elephant offered his other eye for more food.
- elephant asked worm to borrow his eyes, and worm was flattered that he was even noticed
- elephant never returned the eyes to the worm and the worm was blind forever then.
This story made me sad! Everyone was deceitful and mean to each other and the only person that ended up happy was the elephant, though he has to feel somewhat remorseful!
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Bibliography: The Elephant and the Tortoise by Elphinstone Dayrell (1910).
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