The Legend of The Golden Snail

Morning ;)

And welcome or welcome back to my blog! This is my reading task from yesterday that I wanted to finish. Me, Nadia and Nina worked together on this! Basically, we had to read the story, "The Legend of The Golden Snail". We were then given a checklist which we had to tick off if the story had those things. E.g: "The characters are introduced and described" and "The sequence of the event's is described". 

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The story summarised as much as I can since it's a long story:

A long time ago in Indonesia, there lived a prince called Raden who was married to a princess named Dewi. They lived in an ornate palace with lot's of pretty flowers in the gardens.

One day when Dewi was walking in the palace gardens, she spotted a snail among her flowers. Her being over dramatic, (in my opinion), asked one of her servants to pick it up and also throw it away. The snail was actually a really old witch who disguised herself, (I don't even know why either). The witch became very angry, (ma'am, calm down), with Dewi so she put a curse on her and turned her into a golden snail, (at least she's golden). Then she threw the snail into the river, which carried her away from the palace and into the forest.

In the forest lived a poor widow who made her living catching fish. On this day, she had been trying unsuccessfully to catch fish in her net. Finally, she pulled her net out of the water to go home. There, in the bottom of her net was a snail with a shell that shone like gold. She took it home and placed it in a clay pot.

The next morning when she woke up, her floors were swept and there was a meal placed on her table! This continued happening for many days until the day she decided to figure out who was helping her.

One day, she pretended to go out but she was actually hiding. Soon she saw the snail crawl out of the pot. A pretty young woman exited out from the shell. She then cleaned the house and cooked a meal. The old woman realised that she was under a spell and she was determined to break the curse. She took the empty shell and she quickly threw it away into the river. Then the young woman told the old woman her story and continued to live with her.

Some years passed and the kind tried to persuade the Prince Raden that he needed a new wife. Raden was determined not to marry anybody unless she looked exactly like his former wife, (Princess Dewi, i'm guessing). So, he travelled town to town with his servant searching for a new wife.

One day, Prince Raden and his servant came upon the hut near the river. They asked the old woman for food and drinks. After eating and drinking, Raden wanted to thank the person who made the meal. The old woman brought out her "daughter", who was actually Princess Dewi.

As soon as Raden saw her he knew that she was the bride that he wished to have. Dewi refused to marry him, (um ma'am, isn't that your husband anyways?). Anyway, Dewi refused to marry him until he went to heaven and collected the holy gamelan, a special Javanese instrument which played music without needing to be touched. Raden agreed. For one hundred days, he fasted and meditated in the forest until the God's decided to grant his wish. On their wedding day, the holy gamelan played the beautiful music and Dewi was able to tell her husband the story about the witch's curse and the golden snail.

The old woman lived happily ever after in the palace with them and had everything she could possibly want.

THE END.

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We had to then underline the main characters. I underlined Prince Raden, Princess Dewi, The Witch (because without her this story wouldn't have happened, would it?), the servant (#underrated) and the poor widow.

Then we had to connect a line from under the main characters and described them.

Prince Raden: "Prince that lost his wife, (lonely)".

Princess Dewi: "Princess, (got karma)". Which by the way, is completely true after all, she did order her servant to throw it away.

The Witch: "Snail maker".

Servant: "Underrated and unbothered queen/king" and I decided to do it that because the princess turned into a snail and the servant was there, weren't they? So they're unbothered kings/queens.

Poor Widow: "Nice lady that's poor".

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I hope you like this task, sorry that it's so long but I hope you enjoyed! :)