Saturday, November 12, 2011

The story of Tam and Cam

http://maisnow02.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-of-tam-and-cam-vietnamese-fairy.html
 
Story of Tam and Cam
 Once upon the time, The girl was Tam, her mother died early. So her father remarried with cruel woman, her stepmother  gave birth to a daughter. Later, her father died and her stepmother became head of a household. Her stepmother let her do  everything, but her stepsister was Cam. Cam didn't do anything and had better life than Tam. One day, the stepmother told them to catch fish and  one of them had more fish. She would give the new clothes. Tam knew how to catch fish and worked hardly, however Cam cheated Tam to get Tam's fish. So Cam got new clothes and Tam cried a lots. The Buddha appeared and told her to fed the fish which was still in her small bottle. Every day, she called by the song and fed for the fish. Later, her stepmother and stepsister knew and killed the fish. Tam was sad and cried , then the Buddha appeared and told her to hide the bone in her bed.One  day, the King found the girl who would be his wife. So all girls wanted to be his wife, Cam dressed up and went to his place. Stepmother didn't wanted Tam to go, she told Tam finished housework. The Buddha appeared and the bone in jars became the clothes,  golden flipper, jewelry and horse. She was beautiful with that. On the ways, she lost one of flipper in river. The King found that flipper and he wanted to get married to who own of it. Everyone tried to fit the flipper, but they couldn't fit it. Tam became his wife. Stepmother and Cam were jealous and tried to do hurtfully for Tam. However, Tam was nice and gentle, so she was helped by the Buddha. Cam and stepmother was bad and cruel , so they get bad things.
1) extravagant: ( adj) lavish, wasteful excessive, unrestrained.
Synonym: excessive,overweening
Some people talk extravagantly , they make us tired.

2) marvel :(v)  to become filled with wonder , surprise, or astonishment. 
Synonym: wonder
I marveled at my nephew's speaking, because he's 10 months.
3) adorn ( v) to be decoration to , enhance. To decorate with
Synonym: decorate, grace
In my country, everyone will adorn  their house before lunar New Year.
4) captivate (v) to fascinate or charm with wit,  beautiful, or intelligence.
Synonym:  attract 
The new girl cultivated all boys in class by her look.

5) emerge( v) to rise up or come forth into view, appear. To come into existence. 
Synonym:  come out, 
Some nice essays  emerged from the study.

 

1 comment:

  1. This was so good. It reminded me of the story of Cinderella. Good job!

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