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- The Tibetan Folk Tale How the Fox Fell a Victim to His Own Deceit is a story about a true friendship and a false friendship. A young tiger cub is brought a fox to play with by his mother. Later, she finds a calf and brings him. The fox is jealous of the calf and tries to sow dissension between the tiger and the calf, hoping to get them to kill each other. They realize that the fox is lying to them and the tiger kills him instead.
- The tiger is a character that acts as the center of the story. The choices that the other characters make all revolve around him. The fox wants all of the tiger's attention for himself and he is willing to hurt the tiger in order to get it. The fox views the tiger's attention as important, but not the tiger himself. In contrast, the calf only wants to be friends with the tiger, because he feels friendship towards him.
- This sort of triangular friendship is not uncommon in people, particularly adolescent girls. A girl who, for whatever reason, has a lot of charisma will draw other girls to her. Some of those girls will actually care about her, but others will only be interested in the reflection that her charisma casts on themselves.
- A variation of this story could take place in a high school among a group of three girls, with one being a true friend and the other only being interested in what a friendship with the 'popular' girl brings to her.
Bibliography: Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton. Web source.
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