Analyze moral lessons in Cambodian short stories

Abstract

Short story is a kind of work which is imaginative narrative on events and characters and it has no basis in fact, but it contains the moral value inside it. The researcher chooses the qualitative descriptive method and uses convenience sampling for choosing data, analyzing and interpreting morality in two selected short stories called “Two women and a baby” and “the brave fisherman”. In the first story, it provides readers and next researcher with worthwhile and useful moral values such as: “Be parents with high accountability and with pure love”, “Be avoiding to lie someone”, “Be learning not to quickly trust on someone.”, “and be smart to solve every situation by using wide wisdom with deep and critical thinking”. And the second one is it contributes the moral lessons to readers like “Be parents with high accountability and with pure love” as the same moral to the first story and the second moral from this story is “living rightly” .These studies also correlate to the real life, like learning to behave and think well and to Buddhism theory ,such as: “The things that you do with your pure physical, mind and speech, those will bring good things to you back”, “The things that you do with your bad physical, mind and speech, then those will bring bad things to you ” ,and the last is using wisdom wisely and speaking, working and living rightly”.