I have an acting for animation class this semester and our first assignment is to take a popular fairy tale or nursary rhyme and write our own representation of it. I chose to do something on the one about the wolf and the three pigs. I'm just looking for general opinions about the piece itself, I'm not looking for detailed critiques like spelling and grammar since that's not what this assignment is about.
Okami and The Three Colonies
This story happens after a large group of Chinese outcasts were shipped out of China with the promise of living in a land of paradise. The large island they were sent to would soon be known as Japan. All the settlers split off into three groups to create three separate colonies. There are no records that tell the names of these three settlements. But what is known as fact is each settlement had an abundance of livestock, namely pigs.
The first colony was founded in the southern most point of Japan along a beautiful coast. The weather was fine all throughout the year, and the sea provided them with bounties of fish. To speed up the time it took to expand their colony, and because the weather was always beautiful, the settlers built their houses and barns out of things they found off the ground, like straw and twigs. The first colony was the most prosperous out of the three.
The second colony was founded in central Japan, where the surrounding lands were lush with forests. The only problem with the location was that it tended to rain once or twice a month. So, the settlers built a lumber mill to cut and process wood to build their houses and barns with to help protect them against the rain. Although not as prosperous as the first colony, this settlement was the most relaxed and easy living of the three.
The third group of settlers, despite the concern of the other two groups, decided to found their colony far to the north, where the land was always covered in snow. Because of the harsh conditions of their location, the settlers knew that houses made of straw or wood would not keep them warm. So, they built a masonry where they could collect stone from the nearby mountain and turn it into building material to make their homes out of. Because of this, the third colony was the slowest to develop, as the settlers had to take much time to build houses and barns that would protect them and their livestock against the constant blizzards.
One day, the clouds over the sea south of Japan began to darken and change form. A tsunami was beginning to develop. This tsunami would be later known as Okami because it struck fast and swift, like a wolf. The mass of rain and powerful winds began to move north, toward the first colony. The straw houses were ripped asunder as both people and livestock were swept up into the sky. There were significant causalities, only a handful settlers survived.
Okami continued its path upward, toward the second settlement. The houses made of wood fared a little better than the first colony's, but the damage was still catastrophic. The land was riddled with debris and up-rooted trees in the tsunami's wake.
The third colony was the last to be hit by Okami. The rain from the tsunami became froze and turned into snow, which turned it into a blizzard the likes of which no one had ever seen. The entire colony was buried in snow. But, when Okami passed the settlers dug themselves out of the snow. Their stone houses, despite the sheer force of the tsunami, all remained in one piece.
The survivors from the other two colonies learned a valuable lesson. From that day on, everyone made their houses out of stone.
