ONCE UPON A TIME, TIME! TIME!!
A man came in
existence in that village, the
got married to two (2) wives, his wives got pregnant at once and gives birth to male child both of
them so the two boys grew up. So the son
to the second wife, did not love
his step brother because of
their fathers wealth
he bought biscuits
and poisoned the biscuits and give to his step brother
(the son of the first wife) and
he left with his dog whose name is (boobom) so they reached at a point on their
way ,
he became hungry, so he wanted to eat
that poisoned biscuits, his dog over related and snatched the biscuit away form him
and it fell down, he picked it again,
and hi dog still fall it again so
he get annoyed and his dog pick the
biscuits and ate, the died , so he
carried the dog and started carrying shouting (Boobom! Boobom!!) on his
way home he reached at a place where seven (7)
jobless boys was setting down,
the seven boys ask him, what happen , he reply that his dog at e
biscuits and die. The boys carried the
dog away from him, went and cook and eat
the dog and all of them die after eating it when the boy went and see that the
seven boys that carried his dog have eaten it and die he starts running again at a pint he was very
tired and was doing like some body who was drunk because of hungry and thirsty
that he is feeling. On the way as he was
running he saw a man who was drinking his horse and sweet was flowing form the mans body he stop him and use his hand to took the
sweat in the mans body and drink it and
get a little strength and starts his journey, he enter into another village
where it is said that the king is the
wisest man and there is know questions
he can not answer and that the king said
that if anybody should ask him question
and he
(king) can not answer it he (the
king) hand over the kingship to the
person, people was coming from different village to ask question and the king will answer,
so when the boy heard it he went to the
king and tell him that he will ask him question and he (the king) will not be
able to answer it. The king said to him
that it is not possible, that people who is
bigger than him have ask question and he (the king) answer how much more a small boy like
him, the boy insist that he can do it and you will not answer it and the king ask him to ask the question and
if he don’t ask the question he
will be
kill, the boy said to the king “my brother give me biscuit, biscuit kill boobom boobom kill seven people, water that did not come from heaven nor earth I
drink it king what did I say”. The king thought of the word that he said and reply to him that he said his
brother give him biscuit, biscuit kill boobom boobo kill seven people and
the king did not know what the
meaning of water that is not form heaven nor earth and I drink
it and he ask the boy to go and
come back in 7 days, the boy came
back in seven days and still ask him question to the king as usual and the
king still answered but still did not know what the meaning of ‘water
that is not from heaven and earth I drink it” the small boy was ask to answer the meaning
of water that did not come from heaven
nor earth and I drink it” and answered them and said that what it mean is sweat and he drink it, the king was ask
to give his ruler ship to the small
boy since he (the king) said, and the king did as he said and the
small boy become the king in that
village.ANALYSIS OF THE STORY
1. In this life we are today, know body knows
every thing. You need the help of another people to survive whether you are
rich or poor just as it is said that “with the coming together of the two hands
the fly will be killed”, which means
that unit is strength . Unlike the rich man
in the story number one (onyekam) who did not want to consult anybody to train
his children since he was illiterate and
did not want his children to be
illiterate also. Pride is not good
because with pride, we disqualify what we have in our society and also neglect the people we should meet
for advice either in one way or the other just like the rich man in the story
onyekam who wanted to train his son to mount to something in life did not want
to consult anybody because he wanted
them to be the best in the village
not knowing that it can only be possible with the help of others around since he did not know what to do and
where to start.
We should try
and associate with people in anywhere we
are and also let them know our problems,
because you never can tell if the person
you are telling your problem can be of
help to you and we should not
follow the wrong steps that our parents
or friends are doing because it will not do any good to us. Unlike the three
sons of the rich man in the story who proudly follow the foot step
of their father and did not want to let
anybody to know their needs instead there was busy going from one
gathering place or the other to learn something which can not help because you
cannot learn what you did not thought.
It is not everything we hear that we will say out and
also not everything that we see that we
can go to watch, we should always try to know the right source of anything
before we can speak out and also try to avoid
to go to some places because it
might lead us to problems,
just like the three sons of the rich man
who did not want to know the meaning of every words that they hear as there traveled instead there start
speaking what there don’t know
the meaning and also did not want
to avoid going to watch something’s which lead to their arrest by the police.
THEMES
1.
Pride: The theme of
pride in the story is seen in the life of the rich man and his three
sons, because he was rich he decide to
train his sons to the highest level in
their village but out of pride he id not
want to ask anybody in their village
how to start since he did not
know, his children in their hand out of pride also did not ask anybody on how
to start with the money their father give to them.
2.
Ignorance : The theme of
ignorance is seen in the life of the
sons of the rich man in the story onyekam, instead of them to ask people on how to start with the money their father
gave to them in other to learn but out of ignorance there will go from one
place there is gathering to another only hear people speak, because there was
ignorance of what people speak and did not want to ask for the meaning which later lead to their arrest by the police
3.
Honesty: In this
story, the theme of honest is seen in
the life of the rich man who in his mind
had wanted to train his sons to be the best
in their village. The rich man
promise to train his sons which he did honestly irrespective of how it happens. It was also
seen in the life of his sons whom
honestly return to the father when there
learned how to speak.
THEMATIC ANALYSIS
Language: The language
use in this story was easy and simple to analyze. The oral artist uses third
person narrative, which make him to use words like them, he, there and him.