The two stories I enjoyed most from the Congo unit were Vanishing Wife and Another Vanishing Wife. The stories had very similar themes, which
is what I liked about the stories. Both involve a man who is mistreated in his
village and flee into the woods. Once in the woods they both end up finding a
beautiful wife and live a very happy life; however, in both stories the men
either have to do a daily task or no tell the village how he found his fortune.
Both are very simply and very reasonable, and unfortunately both men end up
doing the thing they are not supposed to and their wife and happy life vanish.
They go back to the miserable mistreated life they originally had. I think these stories have pretty powerful
life lessons within the context. The man in the Vanishing Wife lost his life because he didn’t chop the heads off
of the fish he caught. He threw away the prefect life for something so little.
I feel the stories stresses the importance of valuing what we have and doing
what it takes to keep it regardless of how small the task may seem. The man in
the Another Vanishing Wife lost his
happy life because he was warned not to tell his village how he came to find
the life. Letting his guard slip he told his family (who were the people that
mistreated him), and ruined everything he had. A very simply request but yet
for some reason he could not keep it. “Value the things you cherish, do what it
takes to keep them” that is what I took away from these two stories.
(Image from Wilderness Safaris)
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