tale 42 banana or ananab
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Banana or ananab
Once upon a time, there was the kingdom of
coconuts. The monkeys there ate the coconut meat, which was their main food.
The king organized the plantations of the coconuts and, of course, had the
profit of the selling.
One day, some kind of mould attacked the palm
trees and the crop yield was poor, so that the monkeys of the coconut kingdom were
starving.
Of course, the members of the tribe began to look
for other kind of food and that way one of the monkeys sat into a small boat
and paddled to the other side of the river to the kingdom of bananas. He
asked the monkeys there what they ate and they showed him their bananas,
which plantations were, of course, organized by the banana king. Our hero
exchanged some household goods for bananas and paddled back to his country.
There he went to the market to distribute the bananas to the hungry crowd and
to tell them about the alternative aliment.
However, before he could begin the distribution,
some soldiers came by, confiscated the bananas and brought him before the
king. When he was alone with the king, he was asked, “where did you get
this?” “I paddled across the river and exchanged some household goods for
these fruits,” he answered and showed the king how to take of the peel and
what to eat. With a smile on his face, he expected to be rewarded. However,
the king called his soldiers in and had our hero arrested, then he stepped
onto his balcony and prepared his speech to the gathered crowd. The monkeys
on the square cheered at him when they saw him. He lifted his arms and the
crowd went silent, “I know that you are starving but don’t trust any monkey
who wants to tell you that this fruit called banana is edible.” He showed
them the fruit, peeled it and threw the peel to the crowd so they could taste
it. Of course, the peel did not taste well.
Our hero was taken to prison but on the way
through the market to his cell, he was spit at by the monkeys there for
trying to sell bad food and poisoning the citizens.
He had already spent several weeks in his prison
cell when suddenly the door opened and an old friend of him told him that he
had to flee. His friend had prepared a small boat, so the monkey could easily
paddle to the other shore of the river. But before he got into the boat, his
friend told him, “I haven’t freed you because of what you have done but
because I’m your friend. I haven’t forgotten the childhood we spent together
but I despise you for having tried to poison our monkeys. If the king and the
law says that something is forbidden, you shouldn’t do it.” Then his friend
turned around and went away before our hero could explain anything.
While paddling across the river, he was happy to
be free but he was sad because he had to leave the place where he was born
and he was angry because of having been accused falsely.
“When the law stands above reason and everybody
is going crazy, then it’s better to leave,” he thought while he was paddling.
In the meantime, the king sent some soldiers to
the country of bananas to get some banana seeds for his own plantations, so
that he could sell the fruit the next year on the market under the name of
ananab.
Of course, after some years, the monkeys learned
that the real name of this fruit was banana but by then everybody had
forgotten our hero.
Our hero began a new life in the banana kingdom,
found new friends and a new family.
After many years, he went back to his homeland
hoping that the monkeys there had grown more intelligent.
However, when he came to the market place, those,
who recognized him, only remembered that he had broken the law but not the
reason.
“Don’t you remember why I was arrested?” he asked
them. “You shall always be loyal to the law and the king,” they told him,
“it’s not right to oppose the law.” “Even if the law contradicts reason?” he
replied. “What would happen if everybody began to think instead of being
loyal to the law?” they shouted at him.
Sad but convinced that he was right to leave them
again, he turned round and never returned. Of course, he was aware that the
monkeys in his new homeland were not much better or wiser than those in his
land of birth.
When will those monkeys finally understand that
not the state and law should control them but serve them and they themselves
should control the state, power and law.
If anyone should find any similarity to real
events, that’s not a coincidence.
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Samstag, 4. April 2020
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Nice.You have written very good stories for the tiny tots.
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