Comparing The Split Dog, And Catching A Thief

The texts Paul Bunyan, Mister Fox, Jack and the Talking Crow, The Split Dog, and Catching a Thief all have in common being written as folk tales. The text’s share the traits of being orally passed down from generations, which is why most folk tales have unknown authors and usually have several versions. Folk tales are made up of fables, fairy tales, old legends, and urban legends, another reason why there might be several versions to a folk tale. In addition, to sharing the form in which they are written, the texts share features like utilizing everyday language, exaggerated details, and problems being solved in silly ways. An example of a conflict being solved in a silly way is when, Paul Bunyan doesn’t have food for his men, he solves the
Likewise, in Mister fox when Pretty Polly has discovered all the women hanging dead in Mr. Fox’s room rather than turning him into authority immediately, she decides to wait to tell him a riddle and expose him with it. By having Pretty Polly wait to tell anyone about Mr. Fox the story already seems silly, nonetheless, when she chooses to expose him through a riddle the foolishness increases. Similarly, in Jack and the Talking Crow, Jack tricks his two brothers Will and Tom into believing that after they had thrown him into the river he landed on an old buck and rode him out while the sheep followed and that, that was how he came across having so many sheep. Jack having convinced his brothers is a silly way for the problem to end because he had previously tricked them with the into thinking they would be well paid for their cows and for their mother in law’s bodies which pushed them to kill their cows and mother in law’s. Furthermore, in The Split Dog, the dog is not only presented to a unbelievable problem of cutting himself in half completely with a scythe by walking over it, but his owner then solves the problem by simply wrapping him