domingo, 10 de marzo de 2013

Story: "Mother Kite"



STORY: " MOTHER KITE"

CHAPTER 15: " THINGS FALL APART" BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Obierka came to visit Okonkwo and bring to him some cowries with the help of two young men. Uchendu has been told that three strangers had come to Okonkwo´s house, so he went to know them.

While they were drinking wine, Obierka told them an event of the arrival of a white man riding an iron horse to the village of Abame, and the Oracle´s advice was that" the strange man would break their clan and spread distraction among them", so the clan  killed the man.
Obierka told them that the white man don't say a word before they killed him, and after that the clan was now completely empty, the lake turn red as blood and a great evil has come upon their land.


" Never kill a man who says nothing. Those men of Abame were fools. What did they know about the man." said Uchendu.

At that moment, Uchendu told them a story to illustrate his point, " Story of Mother Kite"


This story begins when Mother Kite sent his daughter kite to search for food, she went out and come back with a duckling. Mother Kite asked her child what did the mother of the duckling say when you took its child away, the daughter answer that she said nothing. Mother Kite quickly told her to return the duckling. Daughter Kite do what her mother told her and come back with a chick, Mother Kite asked her the same question, and her daughter answer that the Mother of the chick cried and began to cursed her, and that moment Mother Kite told her that it was fine to eat the chick.


The story´s message of  is that the person who didn't say a thing when someone else do something terrible towards him or her, is a person to be aware of. It´s a sign that something terrible is going to happened.

In conclusion, Uchendu told that story because he was explaining who fool the village of Abame had looked when they killed the white man that didn't say nothing, and that´s the reason that the Abame is suffering from a great evil upon their land.


BY: SANDRA CASTAÑEDA MOTA








REFERENCE:
Chebe,C.(1994).THINGS FALL APART. New York, Anchor-Books

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