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Lin Jiang

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I am going to illustrate the story "Urashima Taro and the Princess Of The Sea". I felt sombre while I was reading it as I know a fisherman is always facing danger from the ocean. I imagine these fairytales about disappearing fishermen came from the families who lost their beloved ones, so they imagined their children went to the palace of the ocean and they will come back one day, but the parents will not see them again. This story reminds me of a Chinese folktale that tells a story about a princess who drowned and became a bird. She hated the ocean because it took her life so the bird wanted to fill the ocean with pebbles. The story of Urashima Taro moved me.

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