Reading Notes: The Liver #1
In this story, an old woman sent her daughter to the marketplace with a few paras (money) to buy a portion of liver for them to eat. After she bought it, she went to the pond and washed it. As she was doing so, a stork came out of nowhere and swooped it out of her hands.
She tried to explain to the stork that she needed it back or her mother would punish her. He would only give it back if she brought him barley, so the girl went to the nearest farmer and explained her situation. He said he would give her some if she prayed to Allah for rain. While it seemed simple, she realized she needed incense so the prayer would come true.
So she went to the merchant and explained the situation to him. He said he would give her incense if she brought him shoes from the shoemaker.
...the shoemaker would make the shoes after she brought him ox-leather.
...the tanner would give her leather after she brought him hide from an ox.
...the ox would give her hide if she brought him straw from the peasant.
...the peasant would give her straw and now, all she had to do was kiss him.
So, she kissed the peasant and returned every favor to get what she needed. After receiving the barley from the farmer, she was able to get the straw for the stork, and in turn get the liver back. She took it back to her mother and they had a delicious dinner.
Something that I really liked about this story compared to the other ones I read was that it finally had a happy ending! That is something that I've been changing in a lot of the stories I've rewritten - making the plot have a happy ending instead of a sad one. This story also surprised me because I thought there was going to be some sort of plot twist, like maybe the stork had eaten the liver by the time she got back, but I was pleasantly surprised that everything ended up working out.
A white stork. Link here
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