THE LEOPARD

THE LEOPARD

Long ago in Africa, there was a pygmy named Ki. He married a pygmy girl in a different village named Luetsi. After a year, Luetsi wanted to visit her mother so Ki gave him a piece of meat for he can't go with Luetsi because he was bitten by a snake and couldn't walk. When Luetsi was ready to go home, Ki let Ntio, his brother; fetch Luetsi because Ki wasn't totally healed yet. When Ntio and Luetsi were on their way home, they encountered a leopard but Ntio stabbed it. Luetsi wanted to test Ki's love for her so she lay down under the dead beast and let Ntio tell Ki that Luetsi was attacked by a leopard. When Ki reached the place where his brother told him where Luetsi was attacked. He pounced on the leopard unarmed and Leutsi just laughed for she only wanted to test his love for her.

INTRODUCTION

       

       The story of The Leopard is about a wife that thinks her husband doesn’t love her that much so he tested him by faking an animal attack. The main conflict of this story is man against nature. That is due to some circumstances, Ki wasn't able to pick up Luetsi. This story is also about bravery on how much you are willing to sacrifice yourself for other people.

BODY

    

                   

          The story mentioned about a pygmy, pygmies are once a race of Central African Negroes. They are the shortest amongst the other races. They are timid and shy. Here is a picture of a pygmy. The term is most associated with peoples of Central Africa, such as the Aka, Efé and Mbuti. If the term pygmy is defined as a group's men having an average height below 1.55 meters (5 feet 1 inch), then there are also pygmies in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Bolivia, and Brazil, including some Negritos of Southeast Asia. Various theories have been proposed to explain the short stature of pygmies. 

          Some studies suggest that it could be related to adaptation to low ultraviolet light levels in rainforests. This might mean that relatively little vitamin D can be made in human skin, thereby limiting calcium uptake from the diet for bone growth and maintenance, and leading to the evolution of the small skeletal size.

       The story mentioned about Ki giving Luetsi a big piece of meat for her mother. In African culture, if they married and the girl decided to visit her parents, the guys must give something to his mother/ father-in -law as show of respect.  That was an example of African culture Ki has done by giving a piece of meat to Luetsi.

        In some circumstances, married couples tend to test their love on each other as if they are not fully committed to each one another. One shan’t marry anyone if they’re not certain. Luetsi has done a mistake by doubting her husband that she is not that committed to her him. For me, their traditions and culture should be preserve and we should leave them be for  indigenous tribes are getting smaller. 

    There are a lot of practices and cultures once a couple are married. Such as Chinese weddings, wedding date is picked carefully according to astrological signs and birth dates, and the ceremony begins on the half hour to cement the couple’s good fortune. Vietnamese weddings, It is customary for the mother-in-law to bestow upon the bride pink chalk, which symbolizes a rosy future for the couple. French wedding, the groom customarily walks his mother down the aisle before arriving at the alter to be married. And many other more. These different wedding practices only proves that we have different traditions and we should respect each other's beliefs.

         There are different kinds of pygmies such as Bakola Bagyeli pygmies, Bedzan Pygmies Bakoya pygmies and many other more. Some of these pygmies have the same life style but some also has a different way of living.

          The population of the pygmies in the modern day are getting shorter. Indigenous tribes should be left alone to preserve their practices. People now a days have technologies and they used it and accepted it as a part of their daily lives and food just sit around the super market ready to be bought by us. Pygmies on the other hand used their bow and arrow as a hunting weapon. You'ed even see women in their tribes topless for they don't really mind about a woman topless. People tend to go to places where the Pygmies live and film a documentary about them to give awareness to people.

                     

         This structure is an example of where pymies live.

This is an example of the weapon they use for hunting. They make those kinds of weapons with the use of wood and straps they got out of coconut stem

Here is also a picture of how they dress                

       themselves. This type of a pygmy tribe is the one where it is located in Central Africa

CONCLUSION

        

     Based on my research in this story, love can be expressed by actions and not only by words and feelings. This story is also a great story to tell people that once you are married you shall not doubt your partner for you have chosen him/ her.  Some people tend to trick people or set him on a bait if they are doubting them. Some things are just needed to be left alone such as the Pygmies.

       










REFERENCE

• pygmies.org
• www.survivalinternational.org
• www.beau-coup.com
• google.com.ph