Week 10 Story: The Brothers' Betrayal
Once upon a time, King Konnar, who ruled the goose kingdom, had two wives. It was not the usual marriages seen in the kingdom. The king had married a beautiful goose and an astonishing crow. The king had fallen in love with both of them, and did not want to have to choose who he married. Since he was the king he married both, and the goose wife lived in the kingdom with him and his crow wife lived at the haunting hill.
Between these two places was a large lake that divided them. The crows who lived at Haunting hill only ate trash and other dead animals. Soon after the marriages, the goose wife laid three huge golden eggs and took pride in them. Meanwhile, the crow wife laid one feeble egg. The wives both wondered whose eggs would hatch first and Konnar had been notified that his wife in haunting hill had an egg just hatch! Konnar excitedly flew to be by his wife's side, when he saw his first born son he was disgusted. The king said, "This is not my royal son! he looks nothing like you or me!." The heart of the mother crow broke hearing this come out of his mouth. She did not understand how he did not see how beautiful their son actually was. The King flew back to his home in the Kingdom where the goose wife said, "You made it just in time. Come meet your other sons." The King heard the cries of his goose sons and said, "These are my true sons."
As time went on the sons who lived in the kingdom heard the stories of how their father had a crow son on haunting hill. They were confused by these stories because their dad had said they were his only sons and knew someone had to be lying on their father. The sons decided that tomorrow morning they were going to fly to Haunting hill and confront the family who has been lying on their fathers name. They took the rest of the day to plan how tomorrow would go for them. The crow son had just finished eating when he asks his mother, "Why do I never see my father? Is he dead or does he not know where to find me?" The crow mother replies, "You have me and that is more than enough." The crow does not argue or ask any further questions because he loves his mother so much and knows that she is right.
The sun begins to rise and the three goose sons tell their mother that they are going down to the lake to swim and enjoy the day. The goose mother tells the three to behave and to have fun, but to be back by dinner. The three sons snicker and fly off towards Haunting hill. They have been directed to the house of where the "stories" have started from. They see a young crow about their age and know that he has made up these lies to try and become royal and get to live as one of them. The first goose son says, "Hey spotted crow!" The crow hears this and responds with, "Hi, my name is Cam!"
The three brothers begin to question Cam, "Where is your father? Why, you are not royal or even look royal... you are a peasant who lives in waste!" Cam begins to become hurt by what the brothers are saying and tries to run away but he can not fly. The three brothers notice that the crow does not know how to fly, and make a plan to come back and trick him tomorrow.
The day comes that the brothers have came up with a plan for the crow who has been spreading lies about their father, and they head back up to Haunting hill without a word. They find Cam again and ask, "Would you like to go find your father? We bet he lives in the Goose Kingdom, huh?" Cam is excited and responds with, "You think he does? I cannot fly." The three brothers tell Cam to not worry and that they will carry him on a stick, he just has to get on and trust them. They find a stick to hold him by and Cam hops on. The goose mother begins to get worried because her three sons have not made it home yet, but as soon as she was about to go looking for them they fly in. "Where have you guys been?!" asked the mother, "we dropped the crow in the lake who was spreading lies about our father, a crocodile finished him for us" said the sons. Once the mother heard what her sons have just told her, she knows that Konnar will never need to hear of this and tells the sons to never speak of the crow again to anyone.
Between these two places was a large lake that divided them. The crows who lived at Haunting hill only ate trash and other dead animals. Soon after the marriages, the goose wife laid three huge golden eggs and took pride in them. Meanwhile, the crow wife laid one feeble egg. The wives both wondered whose eggs would hatch first and Konnar had been notified that his wife in haunting hill had an egg just hatch! Konnar excitedly flew to be by his wife's side, when he saw his first born son he was disgusted. The king said, "This is not my royal son! he looks nothing like you or me!." The heart of the mother crow broke hearing this come out of his mouth. She did not understand how he did not see how beautiful their son actually was. The King flew back to his home in the Kingdom where the goose wife said, "You made it just in time. Come meet your other sons." The King heard the cries of his goose sons and said, "These are my true sons."
As time went on the sons who lived in the kingdom heard the stories of how their father had a crow son on haunting hill. They were confused by these stories because their dad had said they were his only sons and knew someone had to be lying on their father. The sons decided that tomorrow morning they were going to fly to Haunting hill and confront the family who has been lying on their fathers name. They took the rest of the day to plan how tomorrow would go for them. The crow son had just finished eating when he asks his mother, "Why do I never see my father? Is he dead or does he not know where to find me?" The crow mother replies, "You have me and that is more than enough." The crow does not argue or ask any further questions because he loves his mother so much and knows that she is right.
The sun begins to rise and the three goose sons tell their mother that they are going down to the lake to swim and enjoy the day. The goose mother tells the three to behave and to have fun, but to be back by dinner. The three sons snicker and fly off towards Haunting hill. They have been directed to the house of where the "stories" have started from. They see a young crow about their age and know that he has made up these lies to try and become royal and get to live as one of them. The first goose son says, "Hey spotted crow!" The crow hears this and responds with, "Hi, my name is Cam!"
The three brothers begin to question Cam, "Where is your father? Why, you are not royal or even look royal... you are a peasant who lives in waste!" Cam begins to become hurt by what the brothers are saying and tries to run away but he can not fly. The three brothers notice that the crow does not know how to fly, and make a plan to come back and trick him tomorrow.
The day comes that the brothers have came up with a plan for the crow who has been spreading lies about their father, and they head back up to Haunting hill without a word. They find Cam again and ask, "Would you like to go find your father? We bet he lives in the Goose Kingdom, huh?" Cam is excited and responds with, "You think he does? I cannot fly." The three brothers tell Cam to not worry and that they will carry him on a stick, he just has to get on and trust them. They find a stick to hold him by and Cam hops on. The goose mother begins to get worried because her three sons have not made it home yet, but as soon as she was about to go looking for them they fly in. "Where have you guys been?!" asked the mother, "we dropped the crow in the lake who was spreading lies about our father, a crocodile finished him for us" said the sons. Once the mother heard what her sons have just told her, she knows that Konnar will never need to hear of this and tells the sons to never speak of the crow again to anyone.
Bibliography:
The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. Robinson
Author's Note:
In the original story, the King tells his other sons about the crow son that he has and allows them to go and seem him. Once they get there they see how arrogant his is, but that is because he allowed him to grow up in the filth of a crows world. The king treats his goose sons better than he does the crow son and with my story I just wanted to show a crow son just missing his dad and being excited to find him, not him being arrogant but the three goose sons this time are the arrogant ones and take the crow as a liar instead of finding out the truth.
How the crow son felt never seeing his father.
Hey Jake,
ReplyDeleteI... did not expect the ending at all and I am saddened to see that the protagonist lost, especially one so innocent and king. I really love your version of the story though. It was fast paced but certain scenes had a lot of detail to make me feel like the story was being explained very well. I think it's so sad that the father abandoned one of his children while favoring the other. Moreover, I want to know what happens to the crow wife!! You should make a part 2 I would love to read it.
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ReplyDeleteHi Jake! It was so enjoyable to read your story. I think the plot is so interesting that it immediately caught my attention As someone who always loves a happy ending, I was so sad when I read this. I was just waiting for the King to accept the crow son at the end, but alas, it did not happen. You should do a part 2 in which the crow comes back and gets revenge!
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