Sunday, October 19, 2008

'The son of the turtle spirit'

The story begin with a turtle who lived in a pond, he change himself into a human form just to tackle a beautiful maiden he saw upon the window. Once he change his figure into a handsome young man, he come to the maiden's room every nights. Until one day she became pregnant with the turtle baby. When the maiden's mother find out about her daughter situation, she complot with her daughter to discover where is the young man comes from. After they found out about the turtle, the maiden father killed him and throw his bone away. The maiden kept the turtle bone to remind her about him.
Years after, her son has grown up. He didn't get proper love from his grandparents because they still think that he is the son of the turtle spirit after all. Until one day, the boy decided to gain money from a rich man who wanted to bury his father deep in the river where a mud dragon is. The boy who have the ability to swim and dive longer then any human told his mother about it. The mother remember about her husband bone she kept and ask her son to bring it with him to be buried in the river too.
The boy bring along his father's bone and throw it onto the dragon's mouth and hung the bone of the rich man father on the dragon's horn. He rewarded for his work by the rich man whom doesn't know what he did.
The boy gradually change, he became 'quite out of the ordinary' and 'cleverer then anyone else'. Finally in the end of the story, the boy become the Emperor and the rich man son as his minister.

1 comment:

noor sharizah binti jammuri said...

hye sis Hayati, iam sya. Iam studying in tesl (twinning prog)Upm, serdang and about to enter my 6th semester here. Iam interested in reading your version of the synopsis of 'the son of the turtle spirit' Iam taking EDU3234 now with Dr.Edwin and we are required to study the text and many more. I am just wondering if u have taken the course because if you do or if we have anything in particular, I would be very pleasure to have you as my friend. please respond to me at my blog:
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