The origanal (By moi DUH!!):
A long time ago, there use to be a village. And in that village lived a man and a woman. They were a happy couple and had a girl. After a few years of happiness, the wife past away. And the child got left motherless. As for the father…seeing his kid act very unhappy, especially with a sad frown on her faces. So one day, the father made a choice, he decided to marry a lady who he thought was really kind to kids. The lady, now the stepmother of the girl had a son. She really adored her son, and in secret, disliked the man’s daughter. The stepmother always let her own son go outside and play, eat meat, and not eat anything he didn’t like, and on the other side, the stepmother never let the man’s daughter go outside to play, and made her eat what she thought was really bad and worthless. Slowly, the kids grew up and became adults, the son was an obese fellow, and the man’s daughter was very beautiful young lady. The stepmother began the wonder about why her stepdaughter was really beautiful and skinny, while her own son was a fat and lazy guy. Before she died, she finally realized that it was the food they had been eating. Her son had been only eating meat and no vegetable, and her stepdaughter had been eating a little bit of meat and a lot of vegetables.
The moral of the story is that, you can not just eat one thing like meat; you need to have combinations of food. OR the seek of balance.
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The Story(By moi DUH!!):
“Lin! What did you have for lunch today?” Grandma always asked me that same question everyday and I would always say the same thing.
“I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today!” I replied.
“Come over here Linny.”
Grandmother always told me to eat this and that…but all I want is peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
“Honey…you need to eat something else beside peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You can not eat that for your whole life, it is not healthy for your body and you,” I can see that Grandma was always worried about me, sometimes…when she worries too much, she would begin nagging or complaining.
“Eat something else beside peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Here, like these,” She grabbed a piece of Chinese dumplings from a nearby plate which contained leftovers from last night.
“Here eat this,” she commanded me. I shook my head saying ‘No I don’t want any.’
“They’re just dumplings, why won’t you eat them?” Grandma questioned me.
“I don’t want any, I HATE dumplings!” I shouted.
“Here…Let me tell you a story about our ancestors and why you should not only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwich everyday:
A long time ago, there was a village in China. And in that village lived a happy couple. Their names were Jie and He. The couple had a girl, her name was Nana. One day there was an accident and Jie died. Nana was really sad to hear that her dear mother past away, her father, He, saw. So the next day, he set out to find a new wife. When He came back, Nana saw a lady and a boy following her father.
“Nana! Meet your new mother and brother!” He shouted from a distance. Nana hesitated before running to her father.
“Say hello and introduce yourself, Nana.”
Nana looked at her step-mother and brother, “Um…Hello, I’m Nana. Nice to meet you,” Her voice began to sound stiff.
“Nice to meet you Nana, you can call me Zhisi or Zhi.” She said coldly.
“Um…Okay…”Slowly she turned around and walked away.
When she was about half way near the house, she heard the boy shout, “EWWW! You’re a GIRL!” Then she began to run. She ran as fast as the wind back into her room. She threw herself onto her bed and began crying.
‘Why did mother die?! Why did father have to find a new wife?! Why?! Why?! Why?!’ Tears began coming out like Niagara Falls. She cried day and night.
“Nana? Are you awake?” Nana turned her head to the side and saw her father standing near the door way.
“Go away!” She shouted angrily. Then she turned her head back around and buried herself back into the warm pile of blankets.
Her father didn’t say anything and just walked away. After a while Nana herd the two, a now married couple, talk about her behavior. It was obvious that her step mother didn’t like her at all and she was trying to convince him to leave the house for a few days. But, he didn’t leave for just a few days he left for 10 years. Nana wasn’t really sure why he left for so long, so she waited while months passed by. She grew, she ate, and all her step-mother gave her to eat were vegetables and a wee bit of meat. On the other hand, her step-brother ONLY ate meat and nothing else! Their figure and weight changed as they grew. Nana became a beautiful young lady, and her brother was a fat lazy guy who eventually never got a job.
After ten long years, Nana’s father came back home. Nana was so surprised that she ran to him so quickly that you couldn’t even see her shadow.
“Father!” Nana screamed. He hugged her tightly and began crying.
“I was gone for ten years and now look and my dear daughter! You’re as beautiful as your mother!” And indeed Nana looked like her mother.
“So you came back,” Zhi said.
“Yes I did, so…where’s my son?” He asked.
“Why, he’s right over there, sitting under that old tree,” She answered.
He looked over to where Zhi was pointing, he saw a fat guy.
“That is my son?!” He was surprised seeing an obese guy that was his son.
“What have you been feeding him?” He asked.
“Ah well…I fed him meat and only meat because he refused to eat veggies,” Zhi said.
“And what have you been feeding Nana?” He asked Zhi.
“I only gave Nana vegetable and a little bit of meat.”
“Haven’t you noticed that you have been feeding the wrong things to your son?!” He screamed.
“And the last words he said was…”
“How foolish of you to not even notice!”
The end, Linny now have you learned your lesson?”
The Next Day…
“Lin! What did you have for lunch today?”
“I had Chow Mien!” I shouted. My life has changed right after the story ended. I changed what I ate and all sorts of stuff. It seems to me that my life would be a lot better with combinations especially colorful and different things to eat and learn everyday!
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My own comments:
I'm not really chinese...but wanted to put this story's setting in China...or in the US and have Lin becaome a Chinese American. I got an A+ on this when my taecher graded it^^ I'm sooooo happy! Most of my other stories are usally A-s, but this one was and A+!!!!x3. xd whee I've got a few comments from my teacher, parents, and freinds and they all said it was good and had a good moral to the story ^^. Hope you like it too!
-Chu Nyan
 Chu Nyan · Thu Jul 27, 2006 @ 07:08pm · 0 Comments |
