ONCE UPON A TIME, TIME! TIME!!
A man came in existence in that village, the got married to two (2) wives, his wives got pregnant at once and gives birth to male child both of them so the two boys grew up. So the son to the second wife, did not love his step brother because of their fathers wealth he bought biscuits and poisoned the biscuits and give to his step brother (the son of the first wife) and he left with his dog whose name is (boobom) so they reached at a point on their
way , he became hungry, so he wanted to eat that poisoned biscuits, his dog over related and snatched the biscuit away form him and it fell down, he picked it again, and hi dog still fall it again so he get annoyed and his dog pick the biscuits and ate, the died , so he carried the dog and started carrying shouting (Boobom! Boobom!!) on his way home he reached at a place where seven (7) jobless boys was setting down, the seven boys ask him, what happen , he reply that his dog at e biscuits and die. The boys carried the dog away from him, went and cook and eat the dog and all of them die after eating it when the boy went and see that the seven boys that carried his dog have eaten it and die he starts running again at a pint he was very tired and was doing like some body who was drunk because of hungry and thirsty that he is feeling. On the way as he was running he saw a man who was drinking his horse and sweet was flowing form the mans body he stop him and use his hand to took the sweat in the mans body and drink it and get a little strength and starts his journey, he enter into another village where it is said that the king is the wisest man and there is know questions he can not answer and that the king said that if anybody should ask him question and he (king) can not answer it he (the king) hand over the kingship to the person, people was coming from different village to ask question and the king will answer, so when the boy heard it he went to the king and tell him that he will ask him question and he (the king) will not be able to answer it. The king said to him that it is not possible, that people who is bigger than him have ask question and he (the king) answer how much more a small boy like him, the boy insist that he can do it and you will not answer it and the king ask him to ask the question and if he don’t ask the question he will be kill, the boy said to the king “my brother give me biscuit, biscuit kill boobom boobom kill seven people, water that did not come from heaven nor earth I drink it king what did I say”. The king thought of the word that he said and reply to him that he said his brother give him biscuit, biscuit kill boobom boobo kill seven people and the king did not know what the meaning of water that is not form heaven nor earth and I drink it and he ask the boy to go and come back in 7 days, the boy came back in seven days and still ask him question to the king as usual and the king still answered but still did not know what the meaning of ‘water that is not from heaven and earth I drink it” the small boy was ask to answer the meaning of water that did not come from heaven nor earth and I drink it” and answered them and said that what it mean is sweat and he drink it, the king was ask to give his ruler ship to the small boy since he (the king) said, and the king did as he said and the small boy become the king in that village.
ANALYSIS OF THE STORY
1. In this life we are today, know body knows every thing. You need the help of another people to survive whether you are rich or poor just as it is said that “with the coming together of the two hands the fly will be killed”, which means that unit is strength . Unlike the rich man in the story number one (onyekam) who did not want to consult anybody to train his children since he was illiterate and did not want his children to be illiterate also. Pride is not good because with pride, we disqualify what we have in our society and also neglect the people we should meet for advice either in one way or the other just like the rich man in the story onyekam who wanted to train his son to mount to something in life did not want to consult anybody because he wanted them to be the best in the village not knowing that it can only be possible with the help of others around since he did not know what to do and where to start.
We should try and associate with people in anywhere we are and also let them know our problems, because you never can tell if the person you are telling your problem can be of help to you and we should not follow the wrong steps that our parents or friends are doing because it will not do any good to us. Unlike the three sons of the rich man in the story who proudly follow the
It is not everything we hear that we will say out and also not everything that we see that we can go to watch, we should always try to know the right source of anything before we can speak out and also try to avoid to go to some places because it might lead us to problems, just like the three sons of the rich man who did not want to know the meaning of every words that they hear as there traveled instead there start speaking what there don’t know the meaning and also did not want to avoid going to watch something’s which lead to their arrest by the police.
THEMES
1. Pride: The theme of pride in the story is seen in the life of the rich man and his three sons, because he was rich he decide to train his sons to the highest level in their village but out of pride he id not want to ask anybody in their village how to start since he did not know, his children in their hand out of pride also did not ask anybody on how to start with the money their father give to them.
2. Ignorance : The theme of ignorance is seen in the life of the sons of the rich man in the story onyekam, instead of them to ask people on how to start with the money their father gave to them in other to learn but out of ignorance there will go from one place there is gathering to another only hear people speak, because there was ignorance of what people speak and did not want to ask for the meaning which later lead to their arrest by the police
3. Honesty: In this story, the theme of honest is seen in the life of the rich man who in his mind had wanted to train his sons to be the best in their village. The rich man promise to train his sons which he did honestly irrespective of how it happens. It was also seen in the life of his sons whom honestly return to the father when there learned how to speak.
THEMATIC ANALYSIS
Language: The language use in this story was easy and simple to analyze. The oral artist uses third person narrative, which make him to use words like them, he, there and him.
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