(A tiger confronts a frog illustration by Mildred Bryant, 1925.)
I am the King of Frogs, but no one takes me seriously. Even though I am a small king, I am extremely powerful. One day I hope to show my power to a large animal and befriend them. The powerful animals must want to be friends with a powerful king.
Waiting and watching is something I had been doing for a very long time. A tiger was wandering in the woods a few weeks ago, and I thought he will be here for a while. He shall be the one I show my power and authority to! The poor tiger looks so weak and hungry, I felt mighty bad doing this, but I had to.
One day, while he was looking for food... I approached him. I was really nervous, but I hopped over to him and asked him where he was going. He responded that he was going to the forest to hunt for something to eat. According to him, he hasn't eaten in ages.
AND then...
He threatened to eat ME!!
I felt two things: alarmed and angry.
I am a king. I cannot be eaten, I am too powerful.
So, I challenged him.
First, he had to jump farther than me across the river. He failed because he does not have as strong jumping skills as I. Secondly, he had to throw up... here is where I got really clever... while the tiger threw up a bit of water, I "threw up" tiger fur.
How did I throw up tiger fur? I stole some off his tail right before we jumped!
He was so scared when he thought I had eaten a tiger that he ran away. I was shocked... So I waited for him to come back. And he did. He timidly walked up behind a fox and their tails were tied. After seeing that, a hilarious joke came to my mind... I would ask the fox if he were paying me with meat for dinner.
I told the joke and the tiger ran away so fast that his colors were blurred together. I never saw the tiger again.
I forgot to tell you, I am powerful because of my jokes.
Author's note: I decided to write about the story of The Tiger and The Frog. The original story is about how the Tiger helps the Frog go farther. I took this as making the Frog king have a really strong reputation. The picture is the picture that was provided with the original story. I thought it was really cute so I wanted to keep it.
I love big cats, but I thought it would be funny to make the Frog the king of frog because of his jokes. So I wrote in the perspective of the frog and say how he was able to scare the tiger off.
2 comments:
This was a really interesting spin on that story, Christine! I definitely did not see the part about his jokes making him a powerful king coming. I almost felt bad for the tiger, but you did a good job of making the frog a likeable character. I could almost feel his indignation when the tiger threatened to eat him! Nicely done.
I really like the spin you put on the original story. I like how the tiger was tricked into fearing something as small as the frog because of his cleaver trickery. Your author's note could use a little more detail about the original story but overall the story was really good.
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