1. "How the Whale got his Throat"
2. I think a life application from this story would be to be clever or "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity" like the Mariner. The Mariner was able to craft a brilliant device out of the few things he had while inside the Whale. The device worked and was able to prevent the Whale from eating any more humans and many other fish. The Stute Fish was also shown to be clever by setting up the whole event.
3. The story was pretty funny and enjoyable. I liked how it was easy to follow and how Kipling incorporated the list of rhyming words (I think it's called an asyndeton, but I'm not completely sure). It made it seem like I was reading a Dr. Seuss book again. I also liked how the narrator used recurring phrases; it added a nice mood to the story.
Work Cited
Kipling, Rudyard. "How the Whale Got His Throat." Readbookonline.net. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/913/.
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