“What the Moon Saw” by Laura Resau follows Clara, who discovers her grandmother’s captivating stories of growing up as a healer in Yucuyoo, which unveils the magic of the region and kindles Clara’s own inner magic. Read More English Summaries.
What the Moon Saw Summary
What the Moon Saw Summary in English
It is fairy tale told through a painter. It narrates description of two charming scenes that the Moon saw two successive evenings. The painter- narrator finds it difficult to describe his feelings exactly as he is a painter not a foctionist. Yet he tries. He is a poor lad living in a very’ narrow lane. As his room is high upstairs, he don’t lack light in his house. He has experiences of living in from where, he feels life was not at all comfortable and joyous. Here it is quite different.
One evening while sitting in his room he opens his window and finds the Moon in the sky. The Moon has always been very charming to him. The narrator feels whenever the Moon appears before him he tells him something strange. If he tries to narrate all of them, he would create another thousand and one right-the famous narrative classic. So he presents two of those tales told by the Moon.
Now the narrator is the Moon who one evening visits Indian sky. While wondering in the sky his face shines in the Ganga water. His reflection appears pierced through the thick intertwinning boughs of the bananas. It arches beneath the Moon like the tortoise’s shell In the midst of the thicket comes out a Hindu girl like a beautiful Eve. She is delicate and charming. Her sandals are tom due to thorny creeping plants. Still she comes rapidly. A deer comes there to quench its thirst. The maiden is holding a lighted lamp in her hand. She tries to protect its flame. It bums her fingers. She put the burning lamp upon water to float. The flame flickers away still it bums on. The girl looks at it with all intensity of emotion.
She wishes for the long life for her betrothed as she believes that burning lamp will keep her betrothed alive for long. She prays for the long life of her betrothed nothing else. Her brief and devotion appear to be very strong.
On the second evening, the Moon presents the scene of the previous evening. It looks down upon a small courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses. There is a chicking hen with eleven chickens. A Pretty girl is running after them. She makes the hen frightened. The girl’s father comes and scolds her. On the second evening the Moon again looks down upon the same courtyard. Everything is calm. The little girl comes again there quietly. Sire pushes the bolt back and slip into the hen’s apartment. She again makes the hen and the chickens frightened. Her father comes and scolds her more solvently jhan he did yesterday. He holds her roughly.
Tears start trickle down from her eyes. When the father asks what she is doing there, she replied that she wanted to love the hen and beg her pardon for what she did yesterday. She wanted to express her sorrow to the hen. It touches the heart of the father and he pacifies her by kissing at her forehead. It shows that he also feels sorry for his scolding the innocent girl.