The Bird of Happiness

What is this story about

• About a Tibetan village where people where poor and suffering (discuss reasons and the role of natural resources in human life)
• A boy's search to help his village
• About the boy's virtues, ethics and how that helps the village
• We are introduced to the customs in the village
• Names and characters in the Tibetan mythology

Language used in the story

• Translated text
• Who is the translator?
• Some vocabulary specific to mountains
• Some vocabulary which is a slang is also used (for grandfather, etc)
• Written in the past tense
• Third person narrative