Japanese Lit: The Tongue Cut Sparrow
1. How does the old man treat the sparrow?

2. How does the sparrow treat the old man when they meet at the foot of the mountain?

3. How and why does the sparrow become tongue-cut?

4. For what are the old man and woman searching?

5. What does the cross old woman do, and what is her fate?

6. A sparrow is such a small and gentle creature. It seems very strange for a person to have a relationship with a sparrow. The sparrow asks nothing of the people. Why do you think it is a sparrow in the story?

7. What do you think may be the moral of

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Japanese Lit: The Tongue Cut Sparrow
1. How does the old man treat the sparrow?


2. How does the sparrow treat the old man when they meet at the foot of the mountain?

3. How and why does the sparrow become tongue-cut?


4. For what are the old man and woman searching?

5. What does the cross old woman do, and what is her fate?

6. A sparrow is such a small and gentle creature. It seems very strange for a person to have a relationship with a sparrow. The sparrow asks nothing of the people. Why do you think it is a sparrow in the story?

7. What do you think may be the moral of