Reading Notes: West African Folktales, Part B

This section of the story was very interesting, but one part I liked a lot was the leopard and the ram. It is about how the leopard and the ram became wild and domesticated respectively. There are a few things I would love to change to give this story a new idea. One thing I would like to change is the ending part of the story. So after the leopard finds out how the ram kills his prey he becomes very nervous around him. I would like to make that justified. So after the ram hears about the leopard finding out how he kills his prey, he decides he has to kill the leopard so no-one learns of his secret ways he hunts. One night the ram shows his pre-attack motion. The father leopard seeing this aimed at his son yells at him to run away as fast as he can and jumps in front of the attack. The father leopard would be killed, but his son would escape into the woods. So same basic idea just adding a little love and sacrifice in there to keep up the theme of my portfolio.

(Watchful leopard)

Bibliography: West African Folktales; The Leopard and The Ram by William Barker and Cecilia Sinclair; link to reading