Reading Notes: The Giant Crab B

The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India
Author sources: W.H.D. Rouse
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Monkey, Etsy

The reading notes describe the events of "Spend a Pound to Win a Penny." It introduces villagers. Under a tree, they are cooking and steaming peas. These peas will be used to feed their horses. I didn't even know horses ate pees. In the branches up above these people, a monkey is eying the food they are making. When looking down, he devises a plan to get a free meal from these humans cooking. When the people turned away, the monkey would come down from the tree and take a handful of pees to eat for dinner. The author used great imagery elements to describe the monkeys movements and sounds as he came down the tree.
The monkey's plan went perfectly. He successfully came down stealthily, without being heard or seen, and grabbed two great handfuls of the peas. To grab as many peas as possible, the monkey stuffed all the peas in to his mouth, and he climbed back to his home branch with two fists also full of the peas. When settled again he began to collect himself to gather the enormous meal he collected. There would no more for the horses now. All of the sudden, the monkey dropped a pea. Normally, one would shake it off, smile and continue to enjoy the other brunch of peas which were collected. Instead though, the monkey was scrambling. His greed to eat more caused him to flail his limbs in efforts to catch the single pea that fell. When doing so, the monkey also dropped all of his other peas. Even when doing so, the monkey was focused on the first single pea that he dropped. He came down from the tree hunting for the lost pea. Because he was panicking though this time, the human saw him and yelled at him to go away. The monkey climbed back up the tree for the second time, and reflected upon how he now had nothing to eat. I loved how the story had resolution, and the monkey consciously notices his mistake. I am confident he would not make the same mistake again.










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