This was a really cool half reading! I enjoyed literally all of the stories in the first half of the African stories reading. My favorite though was the beginning of the story. How it starts is with the episodes about Motikatika. The most interesting thing about this story is the plot twist at the end. The story starts off with a sick wife and her husband tries to nurse her back to health by bring her honey and water, but he has to make several trips before getting the right water. After this, the husband falls ill, and asks his wife to make several trips to get water for him. On the final trip to get water, the wife gets water, but then a ogre pops out. The ogre tells the wife that since she has taken water from him, he will eat her child and she is the shave the sides of his head and put white beads around his neck so the ogre will know it is him. The wife also tell him to yell "Motikatika!" Although, the wife has a plan. She gathers all the children and shaves their heads and puts white beads around all of their necks. When the time comes, the ogre calls for Motikatika, but sees all the children who are all the same. The ogre then feels defeated because he knows he will be in trouble if he eats an innocent child. So the wife says she will send her son to the field the pick up some beans and the ogre shall find him there and eat him. Little does the wife know, the Motikatika persuades the father/husband to dress up like Motikatika and the father ends up getting eaten by the ogre. The ending blew my mind. Mainly because of this last line:
"It is only just that he should be eaten, and not I; for it was he, and not I, who sent you to fetch the water."
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