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5.
6. AWV but include the fact that Monkey does steal the pillar without regard to what happens to the island or what
the Dragon King thinks. The Dragon King sends an army against Monkey which is defeated by Monkey and the
pillar.
Chapter 10
1.
The Jade Emperor decides to offer Monkey a job in heaven so he can be watched. If Monkey behaves, he will be
promoted. If he doesn’t behave, he will be arrested. AWV.
2.
Monkey shows his arrogance by saying “I am Magnificent Monkey King. Why should I work for you? I am going
home.” Monkey acts better than anyone.
3.
4. AWV.
Chapter 11
1.
Monkey loves peaches and the Jade Emperor puts him in charge of protecting his Celestial Peach Garden. He is not to
each them and yet there are 3 different kinds, 3600 trees and they offer joy, wisdom, staying young forever, and
immortality. How can Monkey resist the temptation?
2.
AWV. We learn Monkey does not even fear the Jade Emperor, he does not have will power or self-control. He is a
master of transformation and a lazy trickster who has excuses for everything.
3.
4. AWV.
Chapter 12
1.
AWV. Monkey thinks of himself as a very important being, but the other high beings apparently do not.
2.
Monkey invites himself. He sends a guest named Lotus-Feet Immortal to the wrong location. Then he transforms
himself into her identical twin and goes to the banquet in her place.
3.
laughs, chortles, giggles, snickers, chuckles, guffawing, belly laughing, slapping his legs, howling, glee, tittering, etc.
4.
AWV.
Chapter 13
1.
The gods and goddesses want to discuss the problem of Monkey and his “arrest” by the Jade Emperor.
2.
Monkey’s tail gives him away and he is discovered by the Dragon King from whom he stole the magic pillar.
3.
As Monkey escapes from heaven, the seven fairies are unfrozen, Lotus-Feet Immortal appears, and the servants report
the laughing liquid is gone.
4.
AWV.
Chapter 14
1.
The Jade Emperor has 100,000 heavenly soldiers and uses a yellow flag proclaiming peace. Monkey has 10,000
monkey warriors and uses a red and gold flag to proclaim he is the greatest.
2.
AWV. Monkey has disrespected the Jade Emperor, broke his agreement as caretaker of the peach orchard, lied to
Lotus-Feet Immortal, stolen from Dragon King and laughed in the immortals faces while saying he is the greatest of
them all.
3.
Monkey is clever and resourceful. Again he uses hair he pulls from his body and magically turns it into a straw to put
water on the fireballs. He leaps, jumps, he frustrates them all. Their normal weapons are of no use on him. He uses
water and wasps.
4.
A tall tale shows exaggeration. Monkey never takes his enemies seriously. He says he will tickle the Jade Emperor,
he laughs in their faces. He is greatly outnumbered by warriors and generals and yet he defeats them easily with water
and wasps.
5.
AWV.
Chapter 15
1.
Goddess Guan-yin wants to use Magician Lang to catch Monkey. Monkey says Magician Lang is a pretty woman but
she uses transformations to become a giant, a hawk, a shark, a gray crane, and then fights him as herself for 9 days
and 10 nights.
2.
The battle is hard fought and evenly matched. No one wins. AWV.
3.
AWV.
Chapter 16
1.
Monkey is only sorry that he didn’t have eyes in the top of his head to see the vase coming that captured him.
2.
Monkey is tied to a pillar and overcomes a soldier attack, the Fire Star, Thunder Spirit, and one year in the blackened
cauldron.
3.
Buddha, the greatest being of the Western Paradise, interrupts the fighting and gives Monkey a chance to prove he is
worthy of ruling Heaven instead of the Jade Emperor.
4.
AWV.
Chapter 17
1.
Monkey is very arrogant and cocky and also no one has defeated him yet.
2.
Monkey has used his hair to become monkeys to battle the Demon of Havoc, to become wasps and defeat General
Vaisravane’s soldiers, and to become a paint brush and mark his spot in Buddha’s palm.
