READING NOTES: PANCHATANTRA READING PART B

This story is part of the Panchatantra unit. Story source: The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma, translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925).


The Mice That Ate Iron
This is a Panchatantra tradition in the form of poetry and made its way all over Europe.
What drew me to this story is the style of writing used. The story was basically broken up by poetic phrases. I liked it because it was different from the typical paragraph format. The Mice The Ate Iron is about a merchant named Naduk who lost his money. The title The Mice That Ate Iron came from a scenario in the story of where the merchant's money could have gone. For instance, they go onto say that a hawk must have flown away with an elephant. They used satirical metaphors to emphasize the point they are trying to make.

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