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Friday, December 6, 2013

the mantis parable

Hello! This is Nami.
I'm going to write about the short movie we saw, Mantis parable.

A caterpillar in a bottle, who had been caught by a boy collecting insects, wanted to get out of it because of the fear of being made into a specimen as the other insects on the wall.
When he was almost giving up, a mantis appeared, which seemed to the caterpillar that he would be a help.
However, the mantis was to kill and eat him.
Then, the boy came into the room, found the mantis, and caught him.
At the end, the caterpillar who had turned to a beautiful butterfly helped him with fireflies.

I found two ironies in the story.
First, the mantis had been free when he entered the room, and made fun of the caterpillar in a bottle, but he was caught by the human boy soon afterward.
Second, though the mantis even had tried to kill the caterpillar, the caterpillar tried to help the mantis in the same situation.