Fool's Gold
Once
upon a time, sailing an ocean far away, was a pirate that sailed the open seas,
looting everything in sight. This pirate was considered to be the richest in
all the land and him and his crew were always clever in order to not get caught.
Deep under the sea, there was a Kraken and his wife that lived in solitude, but
always longed the riches that land contained. One day the wife turned to the
Kraken and said, “Oh Kraken king, how I long to feast on the riches of the
pirate. He has everything from all the lands in one place.”
“How
do you propose I take his riches dear wife?” said the Kraken King. “He has the
biggest cannons in all the land! There is now way that we can just sink him
like all the other pirates!”
“Trick
him,” the Kraken wife said. “Use his own greed against him and get him to come
to the sea alone.” That day when the pirate set sail from his home, the Kraken approached
his ship very calmly and said, “Oh most successful pirate, I have found a whole
stash of gold in the most remote of locations but it is only accessible by row
boat. If you will let me, I will escort you to the location, but only you can
come.” Greedily, the pirate agreed and the two set off to find the loot.
Suddenly the Kraken turned around and started grabbing the boat, trying to sink
it. “Fool, what are you doing,” the pirate said. “I have no gold with me on
this boat it is all at a secret location I will tell you if you let me go.”
Reluctantly, the Kraken agreed and took the pirate to land where he said the
loot was. “Fool! You have escorted me back to land. You have no power here and
I will signal for my ship to come get me.” Defeated, the Kraken swam back to
his abode under the sea to his disappointed wife.
“Wife,”
he said, “Even though we are big and strong and can sink any ship we please,
what is the point if we can’t be happy with whatever we have?”
Kraken Sinking a Ship
Authors Note: This story was derived from The Crocodile and the Monkey's Heart from the reading anthology. It tells a tale of basically two characters and how one outwits the other.
Original Story:
Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock, The Crocodile and the Monkey's Heart
Hi Srikar,
ReplyDeleteI love your take on this story. Why did you chose the Kraken? I would love to hear the reason behind it. I think for your author's note, you need to be a little more specific because I have a bunch of questions in the original. How did the Crocodile outwit the monkey? Just more information on that and stuff. Other than that, I think you did a great job, and the story flowed really well.
Can't wait to read more!
Hi Srikar,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your story. How did you come up the idea of using a pirate? I think it is an interesting interpretation and a great choice for the character traits displayed in the original tale. I think for your story, I would expand more on the actual sinking because it happens very quickly and you could add more dialogue to give the characters more traits for the readers to understand about them.