Monday, 30 March 2009
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Turtle And The Monkeys
Summary:
The turtle meets up the cock who is proud that he no longer has to hunt because he has found a pile of grains somewhere. The turtle gets envious as he tells the cock that he has red eyes, a sickness which could lead to death. The cock fetch a sap and puts on his eyes. The sap hardens at the cock, in panic runs and falls, and ends up with his head in the hole on the ground. Meanwhile, the turtle playfully swings at the tip of the rattan leaf. He persuades the monkey to do the same, but the latter, which is heavier, falls over the cliff and dies. The turtle promptly collects the brain, ears, and heart of the monkey. Dakel-Ubal recognizes the monkey’s remains, calls on all the monkeys, and sentences the turtle to drowning. In water, the turtle laughs at the monkey’s ignorance. Angry, the monkeys ask the creature Ino-Trigo to sip all the water of the river into his belly. Seeing his enemy, the cock swoops down on the turtle to peck out his eyes. The cock misses and slashes instead the stomach of Ino-Trigo. The stomach bursts, and all the water run back into the river, drowning the cock and all the monkeys.
Interpretation:
The turtle gets envious of the cock that’s why the turtle said something that will frighten the cock. The turtle let the monkey to swing that’s why the monkey fell off and died. Dakel-Ubal got angry because of what the turtle did to the monkey. My interpretation to this literary work is that the turtle won in the end because he knows how to swim and cock and the monkeys were drowned because they aren’t thinking of what will happen later on with regards to what they do.
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