Example of an Ogre /Monster Narrative in Oral Literature
You have now eaten all my children, yet we still need the potatoes. What shall we give your now?
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Example of an Ogre /Monster Narrative in Oral Literature
Oral Literature Revision: Ogre/Monster Narrative Read the narrative below and then answer questions that follow. There was a great famine in the land where Obunde and his wife, Oswera, lived with their nine children. The only creatures who had some food were the ogres and before they would part with their food, they demanded a lot of things. One day, Oswera went to one Ogre’s home and asked him for some food, for by then her children were almost dying of hunger. ‘I have no more food except sweet potatoes, the ogre told her. ‘I shall be happy to have the potatoes. We have nothing, not a grain of food at my house and the children are starving. Please let me have some and I shall repay you after the harvest. ‘No, if you want food you must exchange with something right now. Will you give me one of your children in exchange for my potatoes? Oswera hesitated, her children were dear to her, but then they would die without food. ‘Yes, I shall let you have one of them for his meal, if only you…
