Once upon a time, There was a countryman who is selling load of special pears. He sets up his barrow and soon surrounded by a great crowd. Then a poor, old, ragged, hungry-looking priest stopped in front of him and begged to give him one of the pears but the countryman refused.. A man in the crowd said that the he must give the priest a rotten pear because that will make him happy and all the people by began shouting. Then the constable of the market pulled some cash out of his purse bought a pear and gave it to the priest for he is afraid that the mandarin might hear their voices. The priest took the pear with a low bow, and tell everyone that the pear must grow first. He ate up the pear leaving a single pip and took a pick, dug a deep hole, planted the pip, covered with soil and he asked to fetch him some hot water to water the planted pip. While he was pouring they saw first as tiny green sprout, then one leaf uncurled, and the shoots kept growing taller and taller; then there stood before them a young tree with a few branches and a few leaves; and ripe, huge sweet, smelling pear. Then the priest picked the pears handling then with a bow and took the pick again, hacked the tree until it fell and carried it all with a final bow and walked away. All the time has been going on, the countryman quite forgetting his barrow. When the old priest has gone and the crowd was getting thin, he turned to see his barrow and saw with horror that it was empty. Just as he turned the corner, he saw lying close to the wall his barrow-handle without any doubt it was the very “pear tree” the priest cut down. As the crowd is splitting their sides with laughter; but no one saw the priest anymore
Question
1. Folktales keep the past alive. Did you encounter other texts reflecting the same
theme?
2. Why do you think some themes continue to be present in recent literary text?
3. Based from your own idea, what is the purpose of the author in coming up with such
text?
4. What do you think influences the creating of such text considering the reflected
theme?
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