Reflections

I can not believe the class is over, it was really nice to meet new people in this class and read their introductions. It was  great to know an intelligent and creative people in this class. i was really enjoying reading through the comments that others left in my stories,introduction,and comment wall. I want also to thank the instructor for this class. Laura was one of the amazing teachers i ever met. she helped me a lot in writing my stories and revising them.  The reading assignments  each week  were my favorite thing to do. I learned a lot from each unit and there were always new stories to know. Overall, this class was so great and i am glad that i had the opportunity to take this class.

Week 14 Review

I did the the back up for this week and i am glad that I looked over the last announcements. there were  a lot of fun things to read and videos to watch. and off course my best post ever the CATS . here is a good one:

 Cats with heads up

Tech Tip: Reverse Image Search

Rama and Lakshmana builds a bridge

 with the help of the monkey

I did the  Reverse Image Search tech tip. And that was a great and new way to search for images.It was great to know about this image more information.

Week 14 Reading Diary:The Fox and the Cat

I did some extra reading for this week also and i was really enjoying the reading from last week so I decided to read the second half from the Ashliman unit. The fox and the Cat was a short and great story and i think it has a very great in the moral where every one should trust his skills and the ability for doing things.

The Fox and the Cat

Story source: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013).

Week 13 Reading Diary:The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids

i did some extra reading this week and really enjoyed the stories.  "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" is a story that i really enjoyed reading it this week because it was one of my favorite stories when i was a little kid. It talks about a old goat where able to bring her kids to life after the wolf ate them.

The old goat and her kids

Story source: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013).

Week 14 Reading Diary, continued: The Man Who Met Misery

I think this unit was so interesting and one of the stories that I really liked was” The Man Who Met Misery” and it is a story about a very rich young man he decided to go find the misery after he heard about it a lot. After he had an adventure, he came to his parents and told them I know what misery is now. It gave me a nice run for it. It's an awful thing, and there's no joking with it. This story gave me a great idea to write a story about a rich man wanted to find the happiness out of his castle and he might find poor people, but they are so happy in their lives.

Czech Koruna

This story is part of the Czech Folktales unit. Story source: The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922).

Week 14 Reading Diary:The Bear, the eagle, and the Fish

I read the first part of the Czech until and this unit was so enjoyable to read. “The Bear, the eagle, and the Fish” was a good story to know it. And it talks about a young man was able to turn back his brothers in law to human form after they were bear, eagle, and fish. In my story for this week, I am thinking to write a story about a man trying to find a way to be back to his human form after he got changed to panda toy and his panda toy became a human.

Czech castle

Story source: The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922). 

Tech Tip:Google Timer

One of the great tech tips I found this week is the Google Timer. google timer can help me to stay on track during the day. And i also can take some breaks while i start to study for the finals and this timer can help me to know when to get back to study when time is up.

Week 13 Review

This week I enjoyed reading the announcement that I missed the few last days and i really liked the story of  Surya. this is a story i never read before but it was good to read.

Surya

Week 13 Storytelling:Strange sound

There was a young girl her name is Sarah. She was 18 years old. Sarah was a very kind, beautiful, and smart girl. But she was not happy in her life. There was something did not make her live happily. The problem was that Sarah was always having dreams at night and in the next day they became true.

In the beginning, she was so happy with that where she was able to know what would happen with her in the next day. For instance, she was always telling her friends to not go to school in some days because the teacher is absent in that day or sometime she knew that would be a pop quiz in school in the next day so she was studying hard before the quizzes and test and got straight A’s in all her classes.

Moreover, one day she had a dream  that she would have an accident in her car in the next day and unfortunately that was what happened. Since  that day, Sarah started to see bad dreams instead of the good ones. And the big problem was that all the dreams became true.

After a month or so, Sarah heard a girl sound was talking in her head and always told her to not do the bad things. The sound  kept telling Sarah that it would help her in life and not hurt her ever.

The young girl thought that was just an illusion, then she tried to ask the sound something to see if that was an illusion or not. Sarah said I would go to my friend house and what she would be wearing? 

After she asked the question, she heard the answer very quickly from the girl sound:” she would be wearing a red dress. The surprise was the she found her friend wearing the red dress when she visited her. In the next day, Sarah asked the girl sound if she was a fairy and the sound said no.

Two or three years passed and Sarah still did not know what to do with that sound and how to make it left her mind. She did not want to tell anybody about it because she knew that no one would believe her and maybe some people would say that she was a crazy girl.

Sarah’s life was changed where she was not able to sleep at night and did not eat her food or even go to school. And one day she decided to tell her mum the whole story wishing to find some help from her. The mother was completely shocked and tried to understand what happened with her daughter. Then the mother said: we should go to see the doctor if he could help us. After that day Sarah stopped sending me letters or talked to me to know what happened with her after that day.

Sarah hearing the sound 

 Author’s note:

I read the Jacobs unit for this week and one of the stories that I liked is “The Language of Animals”. This is a story about a man how knows the animal language. And the animals always tell him what is going to happened, but his dad did not believe him and spoke to a robber to kill his son in the forest. The robber did not kill the lad. And the man was made pope of all Christendom in Rome. In my story I just used the idea of hearing new sounds to come up with my story and hopefully I did good story for this week.

Bibliography: Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916).

Week 13 Reading Diary, continued: A Visitor from Paradise

I did the reading over the second part of the Jacobs unit. And one of the stories that I really liked was “A Visitor from Paradise” this is a very good story it takes about a woman who gave some clothes and beers for a strange man. She thought the man going to Paradise and she wanted him to give the things to her first husband. Then she gave him her Dobbin but he did not bring it back in the next day, so she went with her second husband to find him but they found in their way booty instead. I think I can do a story about something goes in different way than it should go just because a man heard a word or a sentence wrong. I think that would be so funny.

the man  going to Paradise

Story source: Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916).

Week 13 Reading Diary: The Language of Animals

This is a story about a man how knows the animal language. And the animals always tell him what’s going to happened and his dad did not believe him and spoke to a robber to kill his son in the forest. But the robber did not kill the lad. And the man was made pope of all Christendom in Rome. And I think that’s can give me a good idea to write my story this week where I am thinking to make a girl that always know the things before its happens and that can make her feeling uncomfortable all the time.

This story is part of the Europa unit. Story source: Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916).

Week 12 Review

I just looked over the past week announcements and I really like the one where that cat has an obstacle and trying to overcome it. and the picture said "we all struggle " and i think this picture came in the right time where we all or many of us struggling in the last few weeks of this semester.

Struggling Cat

Week 12 Reading Diary, continued: Mr. Miacca

“Mr Miacca” is a story of a bad boy and very bad boy. He was always not listening to his mum and go out of the street when one day Mr. Miacca caught him and took him off to his house to eat him with his wife. But in the end of the story the boy was able to run home. Since that day he was a very good boy and never went out until he was old enough to go alone. In my story I will talk about a bad boy decided to go out alone and then he will lost and he will be not able to go back to his home until he go through some adventures. And these adventures will make him know that he should be a good person to go back to his home.

Mr. Miacca

Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).

Week 12 Reading Diary:Three Pigs

This week I did my reading over the first part of the English fairy tales unit. And one of the stories that I liked is” The Story of the three little pigs” where there was a fox that was able to trick tow of the pigs and eat them. The fox tried several times to find way to eat the third pig, but he could not be able to do that. The pig ate him instead because he was so smart. In my story I think I will keep the fox as my main character because he is the symbol of the cunning and I may do a story about the fox and rabbit and I will see who is will win in the end.

The Little Pig And The Fox

Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).

Week 11 Review

My favorite announcement from this week was the growth mindset of Mrs.Bean."look boldly ahead"
it so great when people look to their-selves and see what is going on around them without waiting for others to  tell them and they should set the fears aside and look to the future instead of looking just to the past.

Here is the cat

Portfolio Guide

The Flood : This story talks about Noah's struggle to make people believe in God so they can avoid the flood, and it also describes the flood.

Adam and Eve: This is a traditional story from the Bible and it written from a different perspective to show that  God is the only one who can create people and animals and make them perfect in their own way.

Two Workers: This story talks about two workers working in the same factory and one of them was so jealous of the other, so that made him do bad things to his friend without knowing the bad things will happen to him instead.

Don't Be Greedy:  Why Does Greed Beget More Greed ? And to what end can greed lead a person? I think this is a story to answer these questions.

Week 11 Storytelling: Rocky

Once upon a time, there was a king. He loved hunting a lot. And he was always go for hunting with his dog to hunt some birds. The king loved his dog very much and always took it with him wherever he went. The dog was named Rocky. Rocky also loved his master and never left him alone.

One day the king asked the chef to make for him the food, so he can eat it after coming back from hunting. When the King returned back to his palace with the dog, he asked about his food if it is ready or not. And the chef told him that he still need some time to get everything done.

 At that time, Rocky was sitting next to the kitchen door watching the chef to finish cooking and give him his food also. When the chef realized that Rocky was so hungry, he put the food for him near to the wall. While Rocky was eating his food, he saw a snake entering the kitchen from the Cracks in the wall. He tried to catch it but he could not find way to do that. Then he saw the snake drink from the king the food and puffs poison in the food. At the time there was the chef assistant also sees what was happing in the kitchen, but she was also not able to eliminate the Viper.

The King came into the kitchen wanted to see why the chef did not bring him the food yet and he saw the food still on the oven and it smells really good, so he decided to taste the food.

When the king almost tasted the soup, Rocky hit him on his hand to stop him. But the king did not know what Rocky purpose was from doing that and he thought that Rocky just wanted to play. Then he had to taste the food again and the chef assistant was trying to tell the king to not drink from that soup, but he also did not understand that because she was not speaking. She was trying to play signals, but he did not understand them and grabbed a spoon for the third time also to eat. So at that moment Rocky hit him on his hand and jumped into the pot and drank the poisoned food until he burnt and died and in the Behavior he preventing the owner from eating the poisoned food

The chef was the only person who understands the language of his assistant. So the king was shocked to what happened and   asked the chef to explain to him what happened. Then the chef told him that Rocky watched a Viper put poison in the food and Rocky tried to stop you three times, but you did not understand what its purpose was. And that’s my assistant told me because I was out of the kitchen at the time. King said he would request the burial ceremony of the Rocky like how he do it  to anyone because  sacrificed himself and he was a symbol of fulfillment and sincerity.

Rocky 

Author’s note :

I did my reading this week over the welsh unit. And one of the stories that I liked a lot and made me feel sad in the end is “ the story of Gelert .“ Gelert is a great dog. His master, a prince, loved him very much like a child, but in the end of the story, the prince killed his favorite dog because he saw a blood all about his child room and he thought that the dog killed his child where indeed Gelert was fighting a big wolf to protect the child. And I just changed a little bit in the event to get a new story. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Story source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. 

Emerson (1894).

Week 11 Reading Diary, continued: The Fairies’ Mint

-There was a miller noticed that some of his sacks had been moved during the night

-The miller went with his friend to watch the mill

-The mill lit up and at work

-He saw a fairies coin their money.

In my own story I will made the miller got surprised when he saw 

real people in his mill and maybe he will fight with them to find 

out where his sacks or I can also change the fairies to  animals and 

will see what the animals want to do in the mill.

The Mill

Story source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. Emerson (1894).

Week 11 Reading Diary:The Story of Gelert

I did my reading this week over the welsh unit. And one of the 

stories that I liked a lot and made me feel sad in the end is “ the 

story of Gelert .“ Gelert is a great dog. His master, a prince, loved 

him very much like a child, but in the end of the story, the prince 

killed his favorite dog because he saw a blood all about his child 

room and he thought that the dog killed his child where indeed 

Gelert was fighting a big wolf to protect the child. And I think I 

would write a story about another loyal dog with a happy ending 

maybe. 

Gelert and the child

Story source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. 

Emerson (1894).

Week 10 Storytelling: Why are dogs so smart?

One day, a dog was lost in the woods and he was very afraid to see a lion coming toward him.  The Dog said to himself, "I am going to die today; the lion will not leave me alive." And while he was thinking, he saw some bones on the ground around him.  And a great idea came to his mind. He took one of the bones and sat with his back to the lion and pretended to be amused licking the bones and began to scream, and to belch loudly and started saying, "Wow, the bones of the lion really delicious. If I get more of them today I will go to celebrate this wonderful day." When the lion heard what the dog was saying, he got afraid and said to himself, “This dog hunting lions and I have to run away and save my life.” Then the lion ran away from the dog very quickly.

At that time, there was a monkey on a tree watching the entire game.  After thinking for a while, he said to himself, "This is a good opportunity to make the lion my friend and I have to tell him about this game.” The monkey was trying to make the lion his friend and thus he will not be afraid of him anymore.

The monkey ran toward the lion to disclose the dog game to him. The dog was seeing the monkey running behind the lion and he realized that something bad will happen to him.

  

The monkey told the lion everything and explained to him how the dog deceived him.   The lion roared loudly and said to the monkey, “you should ride my back and we need to go to see the dog quickly.”

The dog was very intelligent and he sat down again with his back to the lion and began to speak loudly: "This monkey took a long time. It's been a full hour and he still unable to bring me another lion for the dinner today"

When the lion heard that, he threw the monkey from his back and devours him as a punishment for treason.

And since the day everybody knows that dogs are very smart animals even if they are not that smart. But because of the intelligence of this dog in that day, he was able to win in the game and save his life even if the lion is very strong animal.

Dog

Author’s note:

I did my reading this week over the Great Plains unit. And I really enjoyed reading it. One of the stories talked about why the deer has a blunt teeth and how the deer got his horns. And I thought that would be interesting to know why the dogs are so smart and what made the people know that all dogs are so smart, so I decided to write a story to explain why dogs are so smart. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

Week 10 Reading Diary, continued: Rabbit and Deer

This tale from the Great Plains unit and it takes about a Rabbit and Deer were going to do a race to win the horns, but because the rabbit was cheating the before the race so the deer got the horns .and it also talks about why the deer has blunt teeth and that was also because of the rabbit. I think it is an interesting story to inspire me to write a new one. 

Deer

Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

Week 10 Reading Diary: Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies

Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies is a story from Great Plains unit. 

Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lives in the moon and she has six children. Every spring she sends the wild geese, swans, and the ducks that enable the Indians to eat.so when she ends the wild geese, the Indians plant their corn and Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies makes it grow. When eleven wild geese are found together, the Indians know the corn crop will be very large. The swans mean that the Indians must plant gourds; the ducks, that they must plant beans

The Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lived near the little Missouri and sometimes the Indians visited her.

Little Missouri, North Dakota

I think I can write a story like this by making all the people believe in something can do everything for them.

Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

Week 9 Review

 For this week, one of the posts that I really like is the one talk about staying creative and take risks.it is so interesting to read.

Ways to stay creative

Week 9 Storytelling:Panda-Husband

My name is Mary. I am 27 years old. I do not have too many friends in my life and I always love to spend my entire time in my job where I work at the zoo. It is a very large zoo in north Florida. It has 2,000 kinds of animals. I am working there as a vet and my duty are to make sure that all the panda in a good health and they do not have any problems. Especially this kind of bears is threatened with extinction which means they need too much care.

One day while I was doing my duty as usual, one of the pandas, his name is Zai, was so sick. I was trying to talk to him, but he was not able to answer me, after I did  the medical examination for him I found that he needed to enter the hospital, I told my assistant that we should  take him very quickly to the hospital to receive treatment.

After I took him to the hospital, I was spending all the time with him to make sure he was getting better and I was the only one who feed him and talk to him all the time. And what happened with me that I started to love him and I did not want to do anything in my life more than just staying with him and talk to him about anything in my mind. I was feeling that Zai the only one he can understand me in this world.

One month passed and Zai went back to the zoo to continue his life as normal and I kept checking on him every day until one day I was giving him the medicine that he was still needed, and I heard somebody whispering in my ear I love you. That was Zai. At that moment I did not know what to do. I raised my head slowly and looked in his eyes and said I love you too Zai and I hugged him. That was an amazing feeling I never feel it before.

Since that day we are having an amazing relationship and I had the permission to take him out of the zoo for couple hours every day where in those couple hours we did a lot of things like eating dinner together, watch movies, or going for shopping. And after I finish writing my story for you guys, I am going to meet him for lunch. Anyways, seven months ago Zai and I got married and we are now living a very happy life. Today I am in the 13 week of pregnancy .the doctor said my little panda in very good health and I am so excited to see him in front of my eyes.

Last week I traveled with Zai to California to introduce him to my family and tell them that I am pregnant with a very beautiful little panda. The surprise was that when they saw Zai they scared and they did not believe that I have a little panda in my womb. They told me if I do not ask for divorce and do the abortion to my baby they will not talk to me anymore in my whole life.  And losing my baby is something impossible and I am not going to do that because I love my baby and my husband as well.

Now I do not know what to do I need my family and also I need to stay with my husband and wait to have our baby.

Any suggestions?

image information: This is Zai

Author’s Note:

Dog-Husband is a story about a girl got pregnant from a dog where he was changing to a human during the night and then she gave birth to five dog pups.  Her parents did not accept that even if that dog is a human in the night. And she had to raise her children by herself after her parents killed the dog. And in my story I just imagined a girl sitting in front of her laptop and trying to write her story in some website on the internet and asking for help to find a solution to her problem.

Bibliography: story source Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929).

Week 9 Reading Diary, continued:The Dog-Husband

Dog-Husband is a story about a girl got pregnant from a dog where he was changing to a human during the night and then she gave birth to five dog pups. This kind of stories can make me do a lot of changes to the story and still make sense to the reader because the original story is talking about weird things and an imaginary relationship between a girl and dog. In my story  I am going to do a relationship between a human and an animal without make the animal change to a human and I will see if this relationship can be successful one or not .

five pups

Story source: Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929).

Week 9 Reading Diary:The Woman Stolen by Killer Whales

I did my reading this week over the Native American Marriage tales unit. And I really enjoyed reading this unit.one of the episodes that I liked was “The Woman Stolen by Killer Whales” and I think this story is a great one to make the reader imagine what would happen next. And while I was reading I was wondering what the fisherman would find after he pulled up the heavy thing that was on his hook. And I was also waiting to read what would happen while the woman cutting the fish. I think I would continue my story from this point where something would happen to the woman and man just for cutting that fish where cutting this kind of fish can bring them bad luck.

Killer Whale paddle by Qwalsius

 Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929).

Time Schedule

My time schedule has been doing reading on Tuesday and Wednesday and I am writing my story on Thursday. And I usually get to finish my weekend assignments on Sunday.

So far I feel like I am doing pretty well with this time schedule and I think i will keep working with it for the next half of the semester. One of my classes that I am taking this semester is a 5 weeks class which is very time- consuming class and it takes a lot of time to finish the project and do the report.

I am really enjoying the reading in this class, but I noticed that I am spending too much time doing this class (more than just 6 hours a week) because every day in each week, except Monday, I have to submit an assignment.

Overall I feel good about the class and I will keep working hard until the end of the semester because it is a great class.

yes you can do anything

Week 7 Review

My favorite quote for this week was “the creativity is the result of hard work” which is something I strongly agree with. Working hard and giving everything enough time to think of can lead everybody to create new things.

Image information: Creativity

Week 7 Storytelling:Best Friends

Once, a cat and a mouse were living in the same house and they were very good friends. They were playing together all the time and always go out for walking together.

As winter was approaching, they decided to stock some food in their house.so they went to the market and bought the food. Fearing that other cats or mice might steal their food, and also to stock the food for long time, so they hid it in the first floor of their house in a very small room.

One day, the cat and the mouse were sitting beside the fireplace watching a football game and the weather was outside so bad and it started to snow. After like two hours, the door was knocked, so the cat got so surprised because no one can leave his house in that bad weather and she went to open the door and she saw that their friends came to stay in their house for couple days because their car broke down near the house and they need to wait until the storm ends so that they can repair their car.

The cat and the mouse were so happy to have their friends in their house and they decided to prepare the dinner for them. They went to the kitchen to prepare the food, but they did not find enough food in the refrigerator to feed eight members. So the mouse said to the cat, “what we should do now?” the cat said, “we do not have any other choice, we have to come out with some food from the first floor, I think it is time for that now.”

The cat went to the first floor in their house and brought the food and the mouse prepared the dinner for the guests and had very great night that day.

After ten days, the storm was getting much worse and the whole ground covered with the snow. It was very severe storm.  The guests were not able to leave and reach their car. The cat and the mouse had no food left in their house. And after they discussed this problem for a day, the mouse decided to go out to get some food. The cat said,” you can’t go out in this bad weather. “   The mouse answered, “I have to go we can’t stay without food for long time.”

The mouse struggled a lot to get out of the house because there was too much snow, but after walking hours and hours, he got so tired and did not find any market to buy some food. Finally the mouse found an old man in the street he was also trying to find food for his family, so the mouse did not know that and he decided to ask the man if he can give him some food, and when he asked the man about the food the man hit him very strongly and left him in the ground not moving.

After half of the day passed, the cat went out to find the mouse because she was so worried about him. Then she found the mouse in the street deaf and blind because of the hitting. She took him to the house and takes care of him until both of them died.

image information: nice friends 

Author’s Note:

The original story is a story from the Chinese fairy tales units and it is called “Why Dog and Cat are Enemies” It talks about a cat and a dog they were friends and decided to help their owners to get back the luck ring after they sold it, but the cat was so selfish and gets the reward to herself and kept the dog without anything and from that day the cat and dog are enemies. In my story, as everybody knows the mouse and cat can never be friends, so in my story I made these two creatures are an amazing friends and they overcame all the challenges in their life.

Bibliography: Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. byR. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Week 7 Reading Diary, continued:Fox-Fire

Fox-fire is an episode from my second half of reading assignment for this week. It talks about a man saw a fox in a garden one day, but the weird thing about that fox was whenever blew its breath out, a ball of fire came out of its mouth. That was something interesting to me to read and I was imaging while I was reading the story how the fox did the balls of fire, and I was wondering why this fox is different than others foxes. also I was thinking if I can do story about an animal become a different animal each night like it changes to another animal each night and just his owner knows about him and then the owner decided to use this animal to get some money from doing shows to entertain people or something like that.

Fox-Fire

Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Week 7 Reading Diary:Why Dog and Cat are Enemies

For week 7, I did my reading over the Chinese fairy tales unit. I really enjoyed reading this unit. One of the episodes that I liked is called “Why Dog and Cat are Enemies” and it is a very short and sweet story. It talks about a cat and a dog they were friends and decided to help their owners to get back the luck ring after they sold it, but the cat was so selfish and gets the reward to herself and kept the dog without anything. While I was reading through the story I was wondering if I can change the story to make the cat and dog friends until the end of the story and they can do more adventures together and be friends instead of enemies.

Great Friendship between Cat and Dog 

 Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Tech Tip:Add an HTML Box to Your Sidebar

For this week I used one of the blogger tips.it is add an HTML box to your sidebar tip and this box can allow you to insert text and links into a sidebar box. I liked this tip because you can share some words of wisdom or personal motto.  

Week 6 Review

This is one of my favorite graphics. It is wonderful picture to  tell the idea about creativity because maybe everyone knows the same information about anything in life but not everyone can create a new thing from a normal and old one. 

Knowledge, Experience,and Creativity

Week 6 Storytelling:Don't Be Greedy

There were three friends. They loved each other so much. They were always saying that they could not live without each other because they were friends since first grade at school. Mike, Wu, and Ahmad were living in a very small village where there were not too many people living in that village. These three friends liked to meet in the same place every day and then they went out of the village to enjoy their days by playing some games and meeting their friends from the other village.

One day, the friends decided to go further than they usually did because they wanted to discover new places. While they were standing on a small hill and looking to the wide land in front of them, they saw an amazing green spot. It was looking so different than everything around it.

In the next day, after they finished school they went to see that place. They were thinking that they would spend like two hours seeing the place and have fun and they could be back to their homes before sunset. After walking for almost three hours, they found themselves in the middle of the way and  they maybe still  needed another three hours to get to their destination.

“Let’s go back; it is still too far away,” Wu said.

-    “No, we are not going back because we’re been walking for three hours to see that place and we want to see what is in there,” Mike said.

-  “Yes, and you have to come with us, Wu. We are not going without you,” Ahmad said.

-  “ But our parents will worry about us if we are not at home before eight o’clock,” Wu said

-     “Do not worry, Wu. We will be back at home early,” Ahmad said.

After walking for another three hours they arrived to that wonderful place where there were very many green trees and large mountains. They enjoyed the place and had fun, but they did not realize that the time was too late and it was so dark to go back to their houses. 

While they were walking to find a safe place to stay until the morning, they found a cave and when they entered it. It was so dark so Ahmad took out his phone and opened the flashlight app to see what was in there.The surprise was that they found a very big treasure and it had a lot of money, gold, and silver. They were shocked and surprised at the same time and they decided to divide it between them and everyone get his portion from the treasure.

Ahmad was not happy with his portion of the treasure so he told his friends that he was so hungry and could not wait until the morning to eat and  he wanted to go out to find some food to eat. While he was searching for  food, he saw poison mushrooms and a very bad idea came to his mind and he decided to make his friends eat these mushrooms. When they ate it, they would die and he could take the entire treasure to himself. While he was out of the cave his friends decided to kill him when he came back so they could divide his portion between both of them.

When Ahmad arrived     at the cave his friends killed him and they took the food to eat because they were so hungry and they did not realize that the  mushrooms were poison mushrooms so both of them died immediately after they ate the food. So we can conclude that because all the friends were so greedy and each one wanted the money for himself all of them died at the same time and no one took the money.

 

the  treasure in the cave

Author’s note:

“Why spiders are always found in the corners of the ceiling “is a story about a father. He is so selfish and greedy. He worked hard with his family in their farm and after he saw that the crops were quite ripe, he decided that he wanted to profit by them alone, so he  sent his family to their house in the village and he stayed in the farm alone. One day his son wanted to know the robber in their farm and when he came out to catch the robber he found his father. That was so shameful because he was so greedy and he wanted to take all the money to himself. In my story I changed the characters from father and his son to  three friends.They decided to go to the forest to discover the place and play for a few hours and then come back to their houses but in the forest they found a treasure and each of them wanted to take the money to himself but that led them to their death. What I wanted to say from writing this story is that being a greedy person can lead to a very bad ending and maybe can lead to death.

Bibliography:West African Folktales by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, with drawings by Cecilia Sinclair (1917).