Reading Notes: Stories from Congo, Reading B

("Triplets;"  Web Source: Flickr) 

Bibliography: The Three Brothers in Stories from Congo by Richard Edward Dennett. 

A women had triplets. However, she did not want her kids unfortunately. Thus, she just left them. The kids started to look for food, and all of a sudden there was a lot of food. A spirit told them to eat the food. The kids grew up from eating this food. They had jobs. They had wives, and then had families. The father of the children stumbled around this area one day. He told his wife that these were their kids. The wife tried to find her children, now grown. However, she was not able to. One of the grandchildren saw the lady and were kinda scared. Stranger danger. The triplets were like ok we should kill the intruder. It makes sense. However, the spirit told them not to. They told them to treat her well, so they did. I would want to rewrite this story with not humans. I think it would be interesting if the spirit was actually an animal like a bear. The bear could be the new mother. I think it would be interesting to have a different ending. For instance, I think it would be interesting if the triplets became friends with their parents but did not know that it was their parents. I think this would add more complexity into the situation at hand. I think another interesting adaptation is if the kids are really odd. They had a bear as a parent, so they have different social norms. They do not wear clothes. They may not eat with a fork, knife, and spoon. They may not comb their hair. The parents may meet them and try to help them, but they may not realize that these kids are their own. I would make it more of a narrative from the parents perspective. The original story did not give the parent's feelings or why they really even gave up on the kids.