Reading Notes: The King who Married the Cock's Daughter Part A

For my reading this week I decided to choose the Nigeria unit in the Africa chapter because it is a chapter that I am very familiar with. Being Nigerian, I have seen a lot of movies with plots that can be also found in these books so I figured "Why Not?" and decided to read the stories that were published. Of those stories I enjoyed the story called The King Who Married the Cock's Daughter because of the plot of the story, the humor regarding the wife Adiaunen's weird obsession with corn, and the expressions and emotions that were exhibited in the story. the story begins with King Effiom and his 250 beautiful wives living in his palace but his yearning for more beautiful women to become his wives and having the power to pay their parents and give them whatever they want in exchange for their daughter. One day, he comes across the Cock's daughter (whom i assume cock meant chicken farmer) and he is instantly infatuated with her beauty. He was so mesmerized by her beauty that he did not listen to the Cock's warning of her obsession with corn and how she acts like a crazy chicken when it is in front of her. Once he made her one of his wives, he starts neglecting the other 250 wives for her which makes his head wife so jealous to the point where she plots with the other wives to disgrace her in front of the King's friends at a dinner. When the plan is successful, the King sends Adiaunen home for good which leads to one of the wives confessing to him about the plan. He sends the head wife home as well but this does not sit well with her parents and they too turn her away from their home and she is left homeless until she dies of starvation. The King eventually dies as well from a broken heart and the other wives vow to never date animals.
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(photo: Corn)
 I think this story will serve as the main focus of my story for the week because it is filled with the right characters and elements needed to make the story I want. I will change the setting to something more suitable to that time frame or maybe another decade in the 21st century. I will keep the same characters but give them different names and try to run with it.


Bibliography: The King Who Married the Cock's Daughter by Elphinstone Dayrell Web Source
                                          

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