"Tetiyette and the Devil" is the story about a
young girl who is very picky and never satisfied with what she's given. The
problem in the story is when the young girl chooses to focus on appearance more
than the actual person. The author in this story teaches a valuable lesson
about how to not judge someone based on their looks. The author explains it
throughout the story by using tools such as prose and poetry. The story starts
off with 2 animals approaching the young girl.
A goat and a pig. The goat in my opinion is probably a poor,
not so good-looking animal so the young girl sent him away. The pig in my
opinion was most likely dirty probably a bigger male the young girl didn't like
him as well. There was one guy (The Devil) who appeared to the little girl as a
very attractive man. The devil however had different plans, he dressed himself
in gold chains and put on his most expensive clothes. Here the author is
showing how appearance and what someone wears can have an effect on someone
even if you don't know them. The girl was attracted significantly to the devil
and allowed him into the house. When her mother and father and brother were
sleep the Devil began to eat the young girl and she started screaming for help.
While she screamed the author put her words in poetry and
constant repetition for example, "Oh, Mama! Oh, Mama! Bel-air drum! The
man to whom you married me, Bel-air drum! Is a terrible devil! bel- air drum!
He's eating me up! bel-air drum! The Devil also responded in this context very repetitive
and in poetry. However, her father replied in prose style. Prose is in ordinary
form and doesn't have metrical structure. Her father and her mother however
didn't pay any mind to the girl while she pleaded for help, so she eventually
started to yell for her younger brother who eventually came and aided his
sister and killed the devil.
The author did a good job on using context clues on
explaining the way appearance can affect someone thoughts on you. Also, he
showed without saying that it's important to know more about the person it's
not what is outside but inside, and our main character Tetiyette did a bad job
of that.
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