Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Reading Notes: Laos: The Lovers' Leap


(Couple and sunset: Pixabay)

The Lovers’ Leap was such a sad story. In the story, the father did not want his daughter to date this young man. I would like to elaborate more on that. I could add events that made the father feel this way. Maybe the young man’s father was his enemy. Or maybe the young man was extremely poor and he did not want his daughter to marry him. He didn’t want his daughter to marry him because he knew that his daughter’s life would be miserable. Another reason could be that in their culture, the parents always rearranged their child’s marriage so her father already arranged her marriage and if she did not comply some thing bad will happen. I can probably add another character as well, for example, her mother or her arranged fiancé. Adding the mother can add dimension and she could be there to give advice to her daughter.


Bibliography: Laos Folk-lore by Katherine Neville Fleeson. Web source. The Lovers' Leap

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