Week 1 Storytelling : Three men and a Bear

Mike, David, and josh are three friends love each other and care about each other so much. These three friends had a very strong relationship, they were meet every day and tell each other about their problems and how they must get some money to be able to feed their children. One day the friends decided to go to the forest to bring some skins of snakes so they can sell them and get some money. In the following morning, while the friend searching for snakes in the deep of the forest, David went in different direction away from his friends, and suddenly he saw a bear in front of him trying to attack him, so David tried to escape, but unfortunately he could not do that because the bear got its tentacles in all of his body and made him suffer serious injuries, after a while David was able to grab out of his pocket a knife and stabbed the bear several times until it was dead. At that fighting time, Mike and Josh were watching David from a far how he was fighting the bear, but they did not try to help him in any way. After the bear died, Mike and Josh went to see David if he still alive or not and they saw him in a very critical situation and he could not be able to move because of his really bad injuries, so they decided to carry him on their shoulders until they find any house or small clinic in the nearest town to the forest, but the decision was not the perfect one to take because that would take them two days of walking to get to the town. And after one hour of walking, Josh said to Mike:” Mike, it is impossible to carry David on our shoulders all this time, we should think in another solution to this problem”

“ I got an idea, let me go by myself to the town and try to find anyone can help us with some first aid for David, and I will come back with him to here very quickly” Mike said.

Josh agreed with this idea and said” OK, I will wait here for you with David”

Unfortunately, mike went and did not come back to his friends and forgot that David needs the help very quickly. David and josh remained waiting for a period of time until they  heard the sound of a herd of buffalo coming toward them, then josh run away leaving  his friend David dying  without  helping him or caring about him. And that is what I always say: we can know true friend just in difficult situations.

Misfortune is the test of true friendship [pg 90]

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

The title of the story is “Two Travelers and a Bear “and it talks about two men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.
One of the Men, thinking of his own safety, climbed a tree. The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead. He had heard that a Bear will not touch a dead body. It must have been true, for the Bear snuffed at the Man's head awhile, and then, seeming to be satisfied that he was dead, walked away.
The Man in the tree climbed down.
"It looked just as if that Bear whispered in your ear," he said. "What did he tell you?"
"He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger."

I made some changes in this story where I had three men instead of two. Also I talked about  a different  purpose of having these friends in the forest and how the difficult situations can show you if you have true friends or not. So the moral of the story is “Misfortune is the test of true friendship”

Bibliography: This story is based on the Aesop for children book “Tow Travelers and a Bear” illustrated by Milo Winter.