Question

compare and contrast the character of the tortoise and the king (story; the king's drum)

Answer 1

Answer:

There was an ancient king named Efriam Duke in the Kingdom of Calabar. He was a peaceful man with a wonderful drum. Every time the drum was beaten, plenty of food and drink were found at the tables. So whenever any country declared war against them, they used to call them and beat the drum to prevent the war and changed into festivities.

One morning, one of the king’s wives together with her daughter went down to the spring and they met a tortoise who wanted the king’s drum very much. The tortoise knew that the king’s wife stole the nuts that fell from the ground at the tortoise garden. The tortoise went to Efriam Duke and told what happened. The king asked the tortoise what he would accept as a compensation for the loss of his palm nut. The tortoise only wanted the king’s drum so the king decided to give his drum.

The tortoise made a great feast for three days together with the wild animals. He became lazy for a few weeks and drink too much. He did not notice a stick along his path. The tortoise did not know that whoever owns the drum and walked over the stick or slept over a fallen tree, all the food would immetiately turned into bad things. Three hundred Egbo men appeared and beat the owner and also all the invited guests. The feast was ruined.

Lesson: The lesson of the story is about valuing the things that we have. We should be contented on all the things that we have. We should consider them as a blessing even if it is big or small.

Reaction: I felt so worried and disappointed about what happened in the story. The tortoise did not notice of the consequences of having and aiming for more great feast

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Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

• The king invited his adversaries to the feast, and once they had eaten enough, they were so happy that they no longer desired to engage in battle.There was just one catch.
• The owner of the drum was forbidden from ever stepping on a downed branch since doing so would cause the juju, or charm, of the drum to vanish, and the owner would only reap trouble.

• The king acquired wealth.He led a contented life in his palace, which was located by the sea.He frequently extended an invitation to a feast to everyone in the land since he was a kind man.
• Because people and animals coexisted peacefully in ancient days, he invited all of the animals to join him on these happy gatherings.
• Elephants, leopards, zebras, antelopes, baboons, zebras, and zebras all adored their monarch and had kind words to say about him.
• When he got home, his kids were pleading for food and he was exhausted and hungry.
• The tortoise continued to play on his drum, but this time his home was overrun by foes who beat him and his family with sticks and stones and vowed to wage war against them forever.
• The tortoise left from his home with his family after becoming frightened.
• Together, they fled to the riverbed and hid beneath mud, grass, and spiky tie-tie palms. They have remained there ever since, subsisting solely on grass, fallen fruit, snails, slugs, and millipedes.

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