Yoshiko Uchida

The two folktales "The Wise Old Woman" and "The Old Grandfather and his Little Grandson, are extremely similar with the same universal theme. They both give examples of how the elders in the folktales are mistreated. In the "Wise Old Woman" by Yoshiko Uchida, all of the elders are disrespected when the Lord creates a decree that all elders over the age of seventy-one must be banished into the woods to die. In "The Old Grandfather and his Little Grandson" by Leo Tolstoy, the grandpa is treated…