The Girl Who Hunted Rabbits
By: Zuñi Legend
Setting: little gateway of Zuni river
Characters
Maiden Girl
Cannibal demon
Two Gods
Plot
Exposition: When she decides to go to the woods in search of rabbits to satisfy her poverty.
Rising action: When instead of returning home due to the storm, he decides to stay in a cave where cannibal demons appear.
Climax: The cannibal demon began to ask the young maiden one by one for her rabbits until she was left with nothing. Then, the canibal demon asks for her clothes and then tries to enter the cave.
Falling Action: Two gods heard how the cannibal demon tried to enter the cave, therefore they went to rescue the maiden
Resolution: The two gods killed the cannibal demon and took the clothes of the young maiden from him. The next morning they went in search of more rabbits and accompanied the young maiden to her house.
Theme: do not question the wisdom of the elderly/ Importance of Family; value of hard work.
Mood: Curious and nervous.
Tone: Narrative and succulent.
Voice: 3rd person.
Conflict
Feeding her family but she knows that it is dangerous to venture out slone in the cold wilderness this is an example of internal conlfict one external conflict is the maiden’s fight against the demon another is that of the maiden against the weather.
Man vs. Man: In this story Man vs Man is reflected when the demon Caibal tried to enter the cave and steal her rabbits.
Man vs. Self: It doesn't say so directly in the story, but the fact that the young maiden did what she could to save her rabbits and save herself.
Man vs. Society: When she decides to go to the forest, regardless of whether she was a maiden, since in history she tells us that men were the ones who could hunt animals.
Man vs. Supernatural: The first supernatural element that we can recognize in the story is the cannibal demon, but at the same time the two gods who helped her get home.
Ending by me…
As we can know, the end of this story is that with the help of the two gods she comes home healthy. But another ending that I would give is that no one appeared to help her, but she could escape from that beast but she got lost in the forest and she was never heard from again. This story became a legend called "the hunting soul" and was very famous since it showed the strength of a young and beautiful maiden to raise her family from poverty.
By Valerie Cuello, Step 8 Yellow
