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Shell-Neck's Grim Tale of Friendship

The document summarizes a story from the Panchatantra about a turtle named Shell-Neck who lives with his friends, two ganders named Slim and Grim. When the lake they live in dries up due to drought, Slim and Grim must find a new water source but Shell-Neck wants to go with them. He devises a plan for them to carry him by holding a stick in their beaks, but breaks his vow of silence and falls to his death when the people below want to eat him.

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Shell-Neck's Grim Tale of Friendship

The document summarizes a story from the Panchatantra about a turtle named Shell-Neck who lives with his friends, two ganders named Slim and Grim. When the lake they live in dries up due to drought, Slim and Grim must find a new water source but Shell-Neck wants to go with them. He devises a plan for them to carry him by holding a stick in their beaks, but breaks his vow of silence and falls to his death when the people below want to eat him.

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Santos, Lyndonn Stephen D.

Bautista, Allen Christian

Panchatantra: Shell-Neck, Slim and Grim


Title

Vishnu Sharma
Author

SETTING In a certain lake and over a neighboring city

A turtle named Shell-Neck and his friends Slim and Grim who are
CHARACTERS ganders

a) Exposition – In a certain lake, a turtle named Shell-Neck lived.


He has two friends named Slim and Grim who are ganders.
b) Rising Action – There was a drought and the lake had gone dry
PLOT

and Slim and Grim realize that they must find another body of
water and bid farewell to Shell-Neck. Shell-Neck plead with them
asked that he should come with them because they were friends.
c) Climax – Shell-Neck suggested using a stick of wood and biting
it in the middle so Slim and Grim can lift him above the sky using
their beaks. Then proceed to the plan with Shell-Neck taking a vow
a silence.
d) Falling action – In a neighboring city, people notice the
spectacle and Shell-neck asked what the people were talking
about, therefore breaking his vow of silence.
e) Denouement – Shell-Neck falls down on the ground and he was
cut to bits in a moment with sharp knives by people who wanted
meat.

POINT OF VIEW Third Person Point of View, Limited

THEME The Hindu value of dharma, a duty not to talk

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