Rabbit boy

Rabbit Boy
Anglický jazyk, 8. - 9. ročník
II. stupeň ZŠ
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Autor: Ing. Alena Jankovská
Použitá literatura:
American Indian myths and legends: selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso
Ortiz, Pantheon books New York, 1984, strany 5-8.
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(White River Sioux)
(1) Induction:
In some (2) tribes this story is called “Blood (3)Clot Man”. As you know,” Jenny Leading
Cloud said, “ we Indians think of the earth and the whole (4)universe as a never-ending circle,
and in this circle man is just another animal. The buffalo and the coyote are our brothers, the
birds, our cousins. Even (5)the tiniest ant, even a (6)louse, even the smallest flower you can
find – they are all (7)relatives. We end our (8)prayers with the words mitakuye oyasin - all my
relations - and that (9)includes everything that grows, runs,(10)crawls, creeps, hops and flies
on this continent. White people see man as (11)nature’s master and conqueror, but Indians,
who are close to nature, know better.“
Vocabulary (of induction):
1) induction – úvod, zasvěcení
6) louse - veš
2) tribe – kmen
7) relatives - příbuzní
3) clot – sraženina
8) prayer - modlitba
4) universe – vesmír
9) include - zahrnovat
5) the tiniest ant – nejmenší mraveneček
10) crawl and creep – lézt a plazit se
11) nature’s master and conqueror – pán a dobyvatel přírody
Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
What do Indians think about the earth and the universe?
What do you think, take the Indians the coyote as the good or the bad animal?
Who are for the Indians their relations?
What do they say about white people’s attitude to the nature?
Answers:
1) They are as a never-ending circle, where the man is just another animal.
2) They took it as their brother.
3) The Indians take as their relatives all the living creatures (including animals and
plants).
4) They say, that white people see themselves as nature’s masters and conquerors.
The (adapted) legend:
In the old days, before Columbus “(1)discovered” us, as they say, we were even closer to the
animals than we are now. Many people could understand the animal language, they could talk
to birds, (2)gossip with a butterfly. Animals could (3)change themselves into people and
people into animals. It was the time when the earth was not quite finished.
In these (4) far-gone days, (5)hidden from us in a mist, there lived a rabbit – a very
(6)lively, playful, good-hearted rabbit. One day this rabbit came across a clot of blood. Well,
the playful rabbit began toying with it, (7) kicking it around as if it were a tiny ball.
Now, we Indians believe in Takuskanskan, the mysterious power of (8)motion. Its
spirit is in anything that moves. It (9) animates things and makes them come alive. Well, the
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rabbit got into this strange moving power without even knowing it and the spirit of the motion
made from that clot of blood a human being, a little boy.
The rabbit took him to his wife, and both of them loved him (10) as if he were their
only son. They dressed him up in a beautiful(11) buckskin shirt, painted with the sacred red
colour and decorated with (12) porcupine quills. The boy (13) grew up happily among the
rabbits. When he was almost a man, the old rabbit (14) took him aside and said: “Son, I must
tell you that you are not a rabbit like me. You are a human. We love you and hate to let you
go, but you must leave and find your own people.
Rabbit boy started walking until he came to a village of human beings, where he saw
boys who looked like him. He went into the village and people could not help (15) staring at
this strange boy in his beautiful buckskin clothes. “Where are you from?” they asked him. “I
am from another village”, said the Rabbit Boy, but it was not true. There was no other village
in the whole world, (16) for as I told you, the earth was still in its beginning.
In the village was a beautiful girl who fell in love with Rabbit Boy, not only for his
fine clothes, but also for his (17) good looks and kind heart. Her people, too, wanted him to
marry into the village, wanted a man with his great mystery power to live among them. And
Rabbit Boy had a (18) vision. In it he was (19)wrestling with the sun, racing the sun, playing
hand games with the sun – and always winning.
But Iktome, the (20) wicked Spider Man wanted that beautiful girl for himself. He
began to say bad things about Rabbit Boy to the other boys. And several boys were (21)
jealous of Rabbit boy (22) on account of his strange power, his (23) wisdom and generosity.
So when Iktome said them his bad plan to throw a (24) magic hoop over the Rabbit Boy
which will make him (25) helpless, they agreed. They began to fight him, and Spider Man
threw his magic hoop over him.(26) Although it had no effect on Rabbit boy, he
(27)pretended to be helpless (28) to amuse himself.
The village boys tied Rabbit Boy to a tree. All the time, the evil Spider Man was
(29) encouraging them:”Let’s take our butchering knives and cut him up!”
“Friends”, said the Rabbit Boy, “if you are going to kill me, let me sing my death song
first.” And he sang: Friends, friends,
I have fought the sun.
He tried to burn me up,
But he could not do it.
Even battling the sun,
I held my own.
After the death song, the villagers killed Rabbit Boy and (30) cut him up into chunks
of meat. But Rabbit Boy was not hurt easily. A (31) storm arose, and a great cloud hid the
face of the sun, turning everything into black night.
When the cloud was gone, the chunks of meat had disappeared without a (32) trace.
But those who had watched closely had seen the chunks forming up again the body and going
up (33) to heaven on a beam of sunlight. A (34) wise old medicine man said, “This Rabbit
boy really has powerful medicine: he has gone up to see the sun. Soon he will come back
stronger than before, because up there he (35) will be given the sun’s power. Let’s marry him
to that girl of us.
But the jealous spider, Iktom, said, „Why(36) bother about him? Look at me: I am
much more powerful than Rabbit boy! Here, tie me up, too, cut me up! Be quick! Iktome
thought he remembered Rabbit Boy’s magic powerful song. But he did not remember the
words right. Instead of sun he sang about the moon.
They cut Iktome up, as he told them, but he never came to life again. The spider had
finally outsmarted himself. Evil tricksters always do.
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(That legend was told by the Indian woman Jenny Leading Cloud in White River Rosebud
Indian reservation in the South Dakota in 1967 and recorded by Richard Erdoes.)
Vocabulary:
1)discover – objevit
2) gossip – klevetit
3) change themselves into – proměnit se v
4) far-gone – dávno minulých
5) hidden from us in a mist – zahalen před námi v mlze
6) lively, playful, good-hearted – čilý, hravý a dobrosrdečný
7) kicking it around as if it were a tiny ball – kopal do toho, jako by to byl malinký míček
8) motion – pohyb, hnutí, dění
9) animate – oživuje, podněcuje
10) as if he were – jako kdyby byl
11) buckskin – jelenice, semiš
12) porcupine quills – dikobrazí ostny
13) he grew up – vyrůstal
14) took him aside – vzal si ho bokem
15) staring – zírání, (stare – zírat, civět)
16) for as I told you – protože jak jsem vám řekla
17) good looks and kind heart – hezký zjev a dobré srdce
18) vision – vize, vidění, prorocké zjevení
19) wrestle – zápasit, race – závodit
20) wicked – zlomyslný darebný
21) jealous of – být žárlivý na
22) on account of – kvůli, pro
23) wisdom and generosity – moudrost a šlechetnost
24) magic hoop – kouzelná obruč
25) helpless – helpless – bezmocný
26) although – ačkoliv
27)pretend – předstírat
28) to amuse himself – protože se tím bavil
29) encourage – povzbuzovat
30) cut him up into chunks - nasekat na kusy
31) storm arose – strhla se bouře
32) trace – stopa
33) to heaven on a beam of sunlight – do nebe na paprsku světla
34) wise old medicine man – moudrý starý šaman
35) will be given – bude mu dána
36) bother about – otravovat, trápit se pro někoho
37) outsmarted himself – přelstít sám sebe
38) evil trickers always do – a tak dopadají ďábelští podvodníci
Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
How did the life on the earth look like before it was finished?
How did the Rabbit Boy come to the earth?
Was he a real rabbit?
Where did he spend his childhood?
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5) Where did he leave when he was an adult man?
6) Did people from that village like him?
7) Can you describe the character of the Rabbit boy?
8) What did Iktom, the Spider man, make the village young men to do with Rabbit Boy?
9) Did Iktom have a real magic power above the Rabbit Boy?
10) What was the Rabbit Boy’s death song about?
11) What did happen with Rabbit Boy after the villagers killed him?
12) What did the medicine man say about it?
13) What did do jealous Iktom?
14) What is the moral from truth that story?
Answers:
1) The Indians were even closer to the animals than they are now. Many people could
understand the animal language, they could talk to birds and gossip with a butterfly.
Animals could change themselves into people and people into animals.
2) One rabbit came across a clot of blood. When he was playing with it, the mysterious
power of motion animates it into a little boy.
3) No, he wasn’t. He was a human being - a boy.
4) With his loving rabbit’s parents.
5) He left to the only people’s village.
6) One beautiful girl loved him and the medicine man probably liked him too. But some
young men were jealous about him.
7) He was powerful, wise and generous.
8) He made them to tied him up and kill him.
9) No, he didn’t. Rabbit Boy just pretended to be helpless.
10) It was about his fight with the sun. The Rabbit Boy was the winner.
11) The storm arose and everything got into black night.When the cloud was gone, the
chunks of Rabbit Boy’s meat disappeared without a trace. But those who had
watched closely had seen the chunks forming up again the body and going up to
heaven on a beam of sunlight.
12) Rabbit Boy will come back stronger than before, because up there he will be given
the sun’s power. Let’s marry him to that girl of us.
13) He sang also his death song, but he sang it wrong - he changed the moon to the sun.
then he let him cut up, but he never stood up alive as Rabbit Boy did.
14) Evil tricksters always finally outsmarted themselves.
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