One day, she met the monkey. The one with grumpy face and behavior of amateur. She exchanged her rice with the seed of kakis tree because she was a nice woman. She did not complain although it was certainly this monkey who took advantage of her kindness. Instead of getting angry, she decided to plan her seed. With her skills and love, a kakis tree was raised fast and healthy. By the time, the grumpy monkey came back to the town, a tree was fully grown with huge and delicious looking kakis fruits on its branch.
The kakis tree was thankful. He knew without the Mrs. crab's helps, he would never had grown this big.
"One day, I will be able to provide delicious fruits for the crab."
Although some of his fruits were ready to be served, he decided to wait for all of his fruits to be ripped. He knew if he started to drop fruits for the crab, some of the bad ones might be placed in her hands as well. However, the monkey came by and noticed the beautiful kakis from the tree. The tree knew who he was. After all, monkey was the one who gave him up.
"At least, he gave me to Mrs. crab. For that reason, I shall not hate him."
In fact, the tree did not mind him at all. He knew if he would have been nothing but a trash to the monkey. He was thankful that the monkey gave the seed of kakis to Mrs. crab regardless of his intention. So without the hate, he decide to just ignore the monkey. However, that was until the monkey decided to climb up his body and started to eat some of the kakis fruit.
He thought about taking him down with his branch but he saw Mrs. crab, who was waiting for the monkey to drop ripe fruits.
"As long as this monkey delivers my fruits to Mrs. crab."
He though to himself. However, it did not take a long time until he realized the monkey was taking advantage of the crab. Once again! It was that moment, Mrs. crab decided to act smart and fool the monkey. She tricked monkey to lift his hands up while he was holding all the fruits. When he did, he dropped all of them! Mrs. crab swiftly took fruits and threw all of them to her house. The tree saw what she did and laughed about it.
"Oh, no!"
But suddenly, the angry monkey started to beat up Mrs. crab.
"How dare you!"
That was the action that the tree could not stand. His mind started to filled with anger and hatred towards the monkey.
"You shall be selfish! You shall trick others and take advantage of others! But you shall not hurt Mrs. Crab!"
The tree yelled. His branches grabbed the monkey. The monkey started to scream with panic.
"Are you okay?"
The tree asked the crab. She could not answer. Fortunately, her friends came to help her.
"You are going to pay for what you did."
The tree spoke while he was squeezing the body of monkey with his branches. The monkey cried and tried to escaped. A kakis tree made sure he would not escaped. With all his attitudes and behaviors, the monkey died in pain.
Author's note : This story is originally from the crab and the monkey from Japanese Fairy Tales. The main story is basically the same. The monkey exchanged his seed with rice, the crab planted the seed, and she got the big kakis tree by the time the monkey came back to visit her. The monkey asked the crab if he could have some of the fruits and the crab agreed as long as she would get good fruits from the tree as well. However, the selfish monkey started to take good fruits for himself and throwing down bad or unripened fruits to the crab. The crab was angry and decided to fool the monkey. The monkey was fooled by the crab and he actually beat the crab almost to where she would have died with her friend help. Even in original story, the monkey was killed by the friends of the crab. The main thing I focused was the personification. I was thinking if they would personify the animals why not plants? So I decided to write the story with personification of the kakis tree. Because the kakis tree was the one who actually punished in my story, the importance of the friendship and kindness is less emphasized in the story.
I like how you personified the plants and the animals in this story. It's upsetting that the monkey kept taking advantage of the crab even though the crab continued to do nice things. The end is nice because it helps realize how important friends are and how they will help you whenever you need it. How did the crab fool the monkey though? I was curious as to what made him really mad. The monkey paid the ultimate price at the end.
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That’s so kind of the crab to help the tree grow big a strong. Hopefully the monkey doesn’t come back to destroy what she created.
It’s kind of making me suspicious that the monkey is climbing the tree and that he’s supposedly is going to give the fruit to the crab.
Well darn, the monkey ended up dying the in tree he thought that he was going to be able to take advantage of. It’s clear the tree wasn’t going to tolerate the monkey hurting nor taking advantage of Ms. Crab. I sure do hope she was able to recoup from her occurrence with the monkey.