For the second part of this week's reading, I chose to stay on the Nigerian Folk Stories because I really liked the stories in part A. Specifically, I focused on The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder. This story is based off the idea of why the lightning and thunder are out in the distance and the stories behind them.
The thunder and lightning used to live on the Earth around all of the people. The thunder was an old mother sheep, and the lightning was her son, a ram. The ram used to get angry and burn houses and knock down trees. Sometimes he would get so mad that he would kill people. The mother, thunder, would yell at her son when he was causing all the damage. This is the sound of the thunder. The lightning and thunder were causing so much damage that the people started complaining to the King. The King decided to ban them out of the town, but the lightning was still burning down the forest. So eventually the King had to ban them to the sky. Now when the lightning is angry, he damages the Earth, and his mother yells at him.
It would be difficult to change this story a lot because it is so short and straight to the point. I really like the story, so I was thinking about changing it to thunder and rain possibly. Maybe make the thunder scare the water so it falls down to the ground. I would have to think about it some more, but that is the direction that I am heading.
Bibliography:
The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder from Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria by Elphinstone Dayrell (1910).
Image information:
Thunder and Lightning. Web Source.
The thunder and lightning used to live on the Earth around all of the people. The thunder was an old mother sheep, and the lightning was her son, a ram. The ram used to get angry and burn houses and knock down trees. Sometimes he would get so mad that he would kill people. The mother, thunder, would yell at her son when he was causing all the damage. This is the sound of the thunder. The lightning and thunder were causing so much damage that the people started complaining to the King. The King decided to ban them out of the town, but the lightning was still burning down the forest. So eventually the King had to ban them to the sky. Now when the lightning is angry, he damages the Earth, and his mother yells at him.
It would be difficult to change this story a lot because it is so short and straight to the point. I really like the story, so I was thinking about changing it to thunder and rain possibly. Maybe make the thunder scare the water so it falls down to the ground. I would have to think about it some more, but that is the direction that I am heading.
Bibliography:
The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder from Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria by Elphinstone Dayrell (1910).
Image information:
Thunder and Lightning. Web Source.
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