Reading Notes: The Monkey King

Chinese Painting - 2016

Here is a link to the story.

Monkey is born out of a stone egg.
stone monkey climbs waterfall to iron gates that are curtained by waterfall.
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Monkey faces his own mortality and ventures out in search of 1 of 3 ways to achieve immortality.
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Is given his name Sun Wu King (look up to see if its possibly significant? maybe find something to use as a character name in a story?)
He learns the art of eternal life and a power to fly
he is banished for showing off
Gets into a fight with a giant devil because he took his children and attempted to invade his home.
the following stories are stories about his fights with the king and queens and to the nether world.
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I think this will be good to do as a story for the portfolio



Bibliography:

This story is part of the The Monkey King unit. Story source: "The Ape Sun Wu Kung" in The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).