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“CARLOS VALLEJO MARQUEZ”

English VI
Title: The four frogs

Los Ranos

Calihua Martínez Kevin Josué

Catarino Hernández Esmeralda Berenice
García Herrera Hilary Alison
Luna Rodríguez Jorge Alan

Group: 6IV2
Title: The four frogs.

Author: Adapted from the Legend of the four frogs.

Characters: Narrator, Frog 1, Frog 2, Frog 3, Frog 4.

Scenario: a river, a trunk, a waterfall.

Narrator: Four frogs were sitting on a trunk that floated on the bank of a river.
Suddenly the tree was washed away by the waters. The frogs, surprised by what
was happening, were interested in the movement of the trunk. This is a new
experience for them and each one interprets it in their own way and expresses
their opinions.

Frog 1: What a wonderful piece of wood! It is a magical trunk that moves by its own
strength as we had never seen, as if it were alive or alive, or if it had something
inside that impels it to move.

Narrator: The second frog looks at the first with something of annoyance and then
goes to the others.

Frog 2: No dear friends and traveling companions. The wood has no life or is
magical. It is like any other inert trunk. What moves are the waters of the river that
go towards the sea and drag the wood.

Narrator: The third frog does not want to be left behind and also enters the
conversation to correct the first ones.

Frog 3: Neither the tree moves nor the river move. The only thing that moves is our
thinking. The movement is only in the mind. The rest is pure illusion. This is the
truth.

Narrator: At this point, the tresranas began to argue about what was really moving,
however, they could not agree. The discussion intensifies. Each of them defends
his theory by launching new arguments without listening to the opinion of the
others. So they decided to consult the fourth frog, who until that moment had
listened to everything in silence.

Frog 4: The trunk, the river and our thoughts move. None is wrong, they are all
right.

Narrator: On hearing this, the three frogs were very upset, because none of them
wanted to admit that theirs was not the complete truth and that the others had not
been wrong. So together, they threw the fourth water. And like them, people can
not stand that our explanations do not clarify all the conditions of life, and many
times we prefer to defend our theories, than to attend to reality.

The fourth frog, safe on the banks, shouted at the other three.

Frog 4: Beware! I hear the noise of a waterfall fall if we do not skip before.

Narrator: But the frogs were so busy trying to prove they were right, that they do
not listen to what they are being warned about. They insist on imposing their theory
on others and do not jump from the tree, fall down the waterfall, while the noise of
the waters drowns out their discussion.

The obstinate frogs closed their eyes to the warnings, closed their ears to the
prevenient noise of the cataract. They only cared about the support of their point of
view and not the truth.