Week 9 Story: Why Lightning Accompanies the Rain
Author’s Note: The original story relates thunder and lightning to a being a mother sheep and her ram. The ram often gets angry and causes damage to house and trees causing the mother to loudly yell at the ram to stop. The ram doesn’t listen and continues to cause trouble until the king eventually has to banish the sheep (thunder) and the ram (lightning) into the sky. The ram still causes damages, but you can sometimes hear the sheep rebuke the son unless she is too far away. For the most part, I kept my story close to the original, but I just added the fish representing the rain to the story. I added rain because rain typically goes along with thunder and lightning and I made rain a fish as fishes are typically associated with water.
Long ago, thunder and lightning lived on the earth in the outskirts of the town far from the presence of others. They used to live inside the town however, lightning always caused trouble leading the king to banish them to the outskirts. The thunder was a mother sheep with her son being lightning, a young ram. The young ram got angry often and, in his anger, he often started fires, tore down trees and houses, and even killed people at times. His mother often yelled in a very loud voice to tell her son to stop, but the ram always continued. The people had finally had enough and asked the king to do something about the ram. The king banished the sheep (thunder) and the ram (lightning) even further away from the town into the backwoods. However, this did not change things as the ram still tore down the trees in the forest and set them on fire which spread to the farms.
One day, the angry ram was destroying the trees alongside a large river when a large fish named rain popped its head out of the water. The large fish asked the ram what he was doing but the ram ignored the fish and continued to rampage around the area. The fish decided he had enough and begin to flap his large tail, causing water to go everywhere and caused the farms in the town to become flooded with water. The young ram took this as a challenge and began to topple trees and start fires while the fish continuously began to flap his tail to flood the young ram out. The sheep saw this and yelled in her loud voice for them to stop however the two did not stop until eventually they were both tired out. After their encounter, the ram and the fish fought often causing the farms to be destroyed and flooded all at once. The people once again complained to the king about the ram as well as the fish that caused the flooding of the farms. The king had enough and banished lightning, thunder, and rain from the earth forcing them to live in the sky. Ever since then, rain and lightning still fight often causing flooding and damages as before, but you can often hear thunder telling them to stop.
Hey Chris!
ReplyDeleteI thought this story was really interesting! Giving inanimate objects living qualities is always a good direction to go with stories. I liked how you included rain into the narrative when it was absent in the original. What kind of storm doesn't have rain? I guess you had the same thought. I like how they were given multiple chances but kept messing up every time. I guess their behavior is in their nature!
Hi Chris!
ReplyDeleteI thought your story was intriguing. I'm glad you put the author's note at the beginning because definitely helped me understand more about what I was reading as I read it, context is very useful. I also just think the concept of bringing life to inanimate objects is always interesting and has the ability to convey interesting messages, as you did here. Overall, great job!