Enchanted Fish
The enchanted fish
There once was a fisherman who lived with his wife in a
small hut close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go fishing every day. One
day, as he sat in his boat with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and
watching his line, all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the
water. He quickly started to reel in his line and managed to pull out a huge
fish. “Wow! This will feed us for days.” Much to his surprise, the fish started
to talk and said, “Pray, let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted
prince. Put me in the water again, and let me go! Have mercy o' kind
fisherman.” The astonished fisherman quickly threw him back, exclaiming, “I
don't want to hurt a talking fish! Go on! Go where you came from.”
When the fisherman went home to his wife, he told her
everything that had happened and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go
again. “Didn't you ask it for anything?” said the wife. “No, I didn't, what
should I have asked for?” replied the fisherman.
“I am surprised you don't realize what you should have asked
for. We live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty hut. We are poor and I
am so miserable. You should have asked for a nice cozy cottage. Now go back and
ask the fish that we want a snug little cottage”, said his wife
The fisherman wasn't sure about this but he still went to
the seashore, sat in his boat, went to the middle of the sea and said:
“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”
The fish immediately came swimming to him, and said, “Well,
what is her will? How can I help your wife?” “Ah!” said the fisherman, “she
says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before
I let you go. She does not like living in our little hut, and wants a snug
little cottage.” “Go home, then,” said the fish, “She is already in the
cottage!” So the fisherman went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of
a nice trim little cottage. “Come in, come on in! Look at the beautiful cottage
we have.” Everything went fine for a while, and then one day fisherman's wife
said, “Husband, there is not enough room for us in this cottage, go back to the
fish and tell him to make me an emperor.” “Wife,” said the fisherman, “I don't
want to go to him again. Perhaps he will be angry. We ought to be happy with
what the fish has given us and not be greedy.” “Nonsense!” said the wife; “The
fish will do it very willingly, I know. Go along and try!” With a heavy heart
the fisherman went to the middle of the sea and said:
“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”
“What would she have now?” said the fish. “Ah!” said the
fisherman, “she wants to be an emperor.” “Go home,” said the fish; “She is an
emperor already.”
So he went home and he saw his wife sitting on a very lofty
throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high.
And on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row. The fisherman
went up to her and said, “Wife, are you an emperor?” “Yes”, said she, “I am an
emperor.” “Ah!” said the man, as he gazed upon her, “What a fine thing it is to
be an emperor!” “Husband,” said she, “it is good to be an emperor.” They were
happy for a while
Then a time came when she was not able to sleep all night
for she was thinking what she should ask next.
At last, as she was about to fall asleep, morning broke, and
the sun rose. “Ha!'” thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the
window, “after all I cannot prevent the sun from rising.” At this thought she
was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, “Husband, go to the fish and
tell him I must be Lord of the sun and the moon.” The fisherman was half
asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he fell out of the bed.
“Alas, wife!” said he, “cannot you be happy with being such a powerful
emperor?” “No,” said she, “I am very uneasy as long as the sun and the moon
rise without my permission. Go to the fish at once!” “I don't think this is a
good idea,” said the fisherman but his wife wouldn't listen to him. “ Why don't
you just go and ask the fish to make me the Lord of everything,” she said.
Then the man went shivering with fear. As he was going down
to the shore a dreadful storm arose. The trees and the very rocks shook and the
sky became black with stormy clouds. There were great black waves, swelling up
like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. Unfortunately the
fisherman did not have any choice, so he got onto his boat and rowed to the
middle of the sea and cried out as loud as he could:
“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”
“What does she want now?” said the fish. “I am truly ashamed
of my wife's greed but I can't do anything. She wants to be Lord of the sun and
the moon. “Go home,” said the fish, “to your small hut.” And it is said that
they live there to this very day.
1. Do not behave greedy for something
2. should be grateful for what you have owned
Narrative Text is one of 13 types of English text (genre)
born from the Narration as well as Recount Text, Anecdote Text, Spoof Text.
Then, the definition of narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain
people
Perhaps you need to know that the narrative text, in the
writing and composition lecture is usually called narration, which is one of
type of text in a literary language. Usually, the narrative text contains good
stories of fiction, non-fiction stories, animal stories (fable), folktales,
fairy tales, myths, legends etc. In a simple word everything about the story is
included in narrative text.
Generic Structure of
Narrative Text
# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the
characters of the story are introduced.
# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed.
# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.
# Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story
Purpose of Narrative
text
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain
the reader with a story.
Language Feature of
Narrative Text
– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
– Adverb of time (Once upon a time, one day, etc)
– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella,
Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)
– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said, ”My name is
Snow White”). The direct speech uses present tense.
Kinds of Narrative
Text
fable
folktales
fairy tales
myth
legend
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