Some common characteristic of the folk tale most of us know very old folk tale people share the story orally for years before writing them down since people told story instead of writing them the story change in between places and with each story teller. Each new story teller made change to the story base on his own tradition and culture for example many culture have story like the ravage tale about how people got light in this tale though the main character is another type of animal so the sum up folk tale began in the old tradition and as a result they have changed over time next the character in folk tale are similar they are usually ordinary character
who do extraordinary things they usually have one or two strong characteristic for instant the sheep in the revenge story is selfish and not very smart but revenge is very generous he want to help people and he is very clever as he find the way to get the light in addition often character in folk tale are not people but animal with human qualities they talk make plans and have strong emotion small animal such as popular spider and turtle play this role in west African story in summery the character of folk tale are simple but often clever in achieving in their goal finally the plot or what happen folk tale is usually exciting most folk tale began the story with expression like a long time ago and the more quickly into the story which start with problem for instant a strong bad character often give a weaker character a task promises something if he complete a task the weaker character often use a clever trick special skill or magic to complete the task in the end of the folk tale the good character usually win and the bad character lose in conclusion the plot of the folk tale is interesting so in summary we know that the tradition of the folk tale very old they are been told over the world but they share several in the same feature they began in the old tradition and change through the year they also have a same type of character and strong plot