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Auntie Lily went bankrupt in this Chinese folktale and now she has to pay rent on the house she once owned. Lines 11-12 “If you’d helped yourself instead of others, you wouldn’t have to do this.” So therefore being too kind to other people can effect your life poorly.

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This story is a chinese folktale because of all the characteristics it has for a folktale. Folktales are stories that have been handed down through generations by being told outloud.It is a chinese folktale because it says the author only enjoys writing chinese folktales. It also classifies as a chinese folktale because it came from Chinese immigrants who settled in California. It is a folktale because Auntie Lily represents a specific trait. It also is a folktale because it has a moral or a lesson.

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Kindness comes with no price. This is the moral or lesson too because of how Auntie Lily treats everyone one kindly and with the same respect and expects nothing in return. It directly says this in the folktale on line 208, “Take this to the heart: Kindness comes with no price.”

In the Indian Folktale, "Price Of Greed", a poor family lets a poor holy man stay in their home. A quote from this folktale is "and I am so pleased by your kindness, I would like to grant you three wishes. Anything at all." Which relates to the women getting gold in return for her hospitality.

In “Waters of Gold” there is a women named Auntie Lily who treats everyone with equal respect and care, rich and poor. She has a neighbor who isn’t the nicest person, but has a lot of money. One day a beggar comes into town and asks around for water to wash his feet with. All of the villagers decline him since he is poor. As he asks the neighbor, he gets rejected and called trash. Moving on to the next house, whose house is Auntie Lily’s he is welcomed with open arms. She gives him water and he washes himself up. Then as he’s leaving he thanks her and tells her to leave the water next to her bed and not look at it til morning. Auntie Lily wakes up the next morning and continues her day forgetting about the water. Until she spots it and goes over to use it to water flowers. She lifts off the top of the pot and realizes its gold. She asks a farmer to validate that its real and then the whole village is in shock and angry at themselves. Then the beggar comes back into town and asks again. Now the neighbor, knowing that Auntie Lily got gold, gives him water . The beggar does the same thing and tells her to not look in the pot til morning as well. She takes the water inside eager for the morning. In the morning as she expects gold in the pot, she gets bit by reptiles of all kinds. She then gets sick and now is nice to everyone that comes her way. Then a man comes to the woman's door and sees she’s not doing well. In the end, the man was the beggar’s brother and the sickness is lifted from her because she was nice without a reason to be.

In another folktale, "The Hermit and the Bear" retold by Edward Baldwin in 1854, there is a man who lost everything but is still nice to everyone and everyone loves him too. Here is a quote from the folktale, “He was a very good man, doing kindness to everybody when he was able, and everybody loved him. If a traveller lost his way in the forest and was hungry and weary and benighted, the old man would give him a part of his supper and invite him to lodge in his cave.”

Waters of Gold

Retold by Laurence Yep

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