The Dream of Akinosuke - Week 3 Response


      For this week I read of the stories from Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things. I read the Dream of Akinosuke. It is a crazy story about this man who has a fanatical dream while asleep under a tree. This could be a stereotypical story because his dream involves finding an island, falling in love, and becoming royalty but the twist is how it ends. The woman he fell in love with died and then they build a statue if her in her memory. Soon after that is when he wakes up and thinks it was all a dream, but he discovers all these insects under the tree and there is something that resembles the statue of his beloved and under it is a dead queen ant. This ending makes this story something completely original. I really like that twist and the idea he lived in this insect world in his dream. 

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