Week 3 Story: The Chase

 One day, a little boy, his father, and his grandfather went out on a hunt. The goal was to go out and turn the young boy into a man by getting him his first deer. The family was trudging through the woods trying to find the perfect spot to try and see some deer. Eventually, the boys found the spot and saw a deer. 

After spotting the deer, they started making their way across the mountain and started tracking it. Hours and hours of searching later, they finally found the deer. It was perfectly still and all you could hear was the wind blowing through the trees. The deer was on the bank of the river just about to take a drink of water when all of the sudden, a noise spooks the deer. 

The deer immediately takes off running and the boys start chasing it. On and on the men rode on their horses and the deer kept sprinting along. Finally, the boy got close enough to the deer to shoot it with an arrow right through the heart. Once hit, the deer immediately fell; however, this was no ordinary death and the grown men knew it. The young boy was confused why his dad and grandfather were acting so strange. The deer was making strange noises and eventually cried out "save me please, save me son." 

Little did they know the deer was actually an old ancestor of the young boy. The deer was the reincarnated soul of the grandfathers father. The boy was instantly overwhelmed with sadness, fear, and regret. The boy would choose to never hunt again in fear of murdering another soul of a family member. 

(Deer)

Author's Note:
I liked the original story, but I wanted to make it more recent and relevant to our lives. I was recently watching a TV show where a family went hunting for deer and that is where I got the inspiration for that portion of the story. Also, it worked out well because the original story involved killing a deer. I wanted to incorporate the idea of reincarnation because I find it to be a very interesting idea and it was in the original story as well. Furthermore, I kept the idea of a chase but I prolonged it to mimic what a hunt for a deer is normally like up until I added some extra fun stuff for creativity. 

Bibliography:  Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913).




Comments

  1. IshaFebruary 13, 2021 at 5:34 PM

    Hi Robbie! I enjoyed reading your story and I liked how you combined a hunting story and the aspect of reincarnation. It was really interesting to see how our past lives affect our future actions and the realization we have when our past life catches up to us. In the young boy's case, his ancestor reincarnated as a deer is a reminder to never hurt animals again.

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  2. Jacob TostadoFebruary 13, 2021 at 6:45 PM

    Hey Robbie!

    I really liked your story. Your storytelling is very good and I appreciated how you included little setting details such as the wind blowing, the river bank, or how they were on a mountain. I also think that the hunting trip story is a perfect way to introduce a lesson or moral. The ending was almost scary to think about and I think it tied reincarnation in perfectly.

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