Animated
A surprising twist unfolds as a humble crab proves to be more cunning than a boastful monkey.
Setting and Characters
Setting: A shady side of a mountain, likely in a tropical or subtropical region due to the presence of kaki trees.
Characters:
Crab: A hardworking, diligent, and proud housewife who values cleanliness and order.
Monkey: A sly, greedy, and opportunistic creature known for his agility and trickery.
Plot Summary
Discovery and Exchange: The crab finds cooked rice and proposes a trade with the monkey for a kaki kernel.
Growth and Request: The crab plants the kernel, which grows into a kaki tree. The monkey, seeing the fruit, asks the crab for some.
Betrayal and Deception: The monkey, despite the crab's inability to climb, promises to retrieve the fruit. He eats most of them himself and throws rotten ones to the crab.
Revenge and Justice: The crab, using her cunning, tricks the monkey into falling from the tree and being attacked by a wasp and a mortar.
Themes and Moral Lessons
Greed and its Consequences: The monkey's greed leads to his downfall, highlighting the dangers of excessive desire.
Cunning and Intelligence: The crab's cleverness and resourcefulness allow her to outsmart the monkey and seek justice.
Friendship and Loyalty: The crab's friends, the wasp, rice-mortar, and egg, stand by her and help her exact revenge.
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