Overcoming Adversity
The story "Why we Tell Stories About Spider" refers to the overall theme "overcoming adversity" due to the spider overcoming all the animals using trickery and deceit. The first example of this is the bees. The bees symbolize the adversity that Anaanu was able to overcome by trapping the bees in a calabash. The second example of this theme is the snake, which again is the adversity. Anaanu overcomes the snake by tricking it to wrap around a pole and tying it to the pole. The final example is that of the leopard. The leopard does symbolize adversity and he overcame it by tricking it to jump into a hole. A quote that justifies these things is "If you want it, I will let you have it, but first you must prove to me you are fit to have it. This
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The first example that supports this theme is when the people lost the tracks of the snake which would be the adversity. They were able to overcome this by having a man smell the snake out. The second example is when the people could not go any further because water was set in their path. Finally they were able to get through, by having a man drink it all up. Another example of the theme is when the hole was covered up with mud, so to access the hole, the townspeople had to get a man to dig out all the mud. In this example, the mud symbolizes the adversity. The fourth example is when the townspeople could not reach the bottom of the hole due to how deep the hole was which symbolizes the adversity. They are able to overcome this by having a man with a long arm reach down inside the hole. The final example of the theme is when the townspeople found the chief's daughter dead because the snake had swallowed her. To overcome death the man healed her.The quote that led to all the dilemmas occurrences was "This they did and reported that both the girl and the man were missing." This applies to the theme overcoming adversity because this starts the rest of the adversities that set them on their hard journey. As you can see the townspeople overcame a lot of adversity to save one of their own. They over came the
The first example that supports this theme is when the people lost the tracks of the snake which would be the adversity. They were able to overcome this by having a man smell the snake out. The second example is when the people could not go any further because water was set in their path. Finally they were able to get through, by having a man drink it all up. Another example of the theme is when the hole was covered up with mud, so to access the hole, the townspeople had to get a man to dig out all the mud. In this example, the mud symbolizes the adversity. The fourth example is when the townspeople could not reach the bottom of the hole due to how deep the hole was which symbolizes the adversity. They are able to overcome this by having a man with a long arm reach down inside the hole. The final example of the theme is when the townspeople found the chief's daughter dead because the snake had swallowed her. To overcome death the man healed her.The quote that led to all the dilemmas occurrences was "This they did and reported that both the girl and the man were missing." This applies to the theme overcoming adversity because this starts the rest of the adversities that set them on their hard journey. As you can see the townspeople overcame a lot of adversity to save one of their own. They over came the