The Critique of the story "Why is the Sea Salty?" by Leigh Perez

       

To be honest, i found this story quite amusing. Many years ago, the sea tasted like ordinary rainwater. The people living in the islands knew about a friendly giant who kept mounds of salt in his cave.The people cross the ocean on their boats to reach the gentle giant's island, and that is how they were able to bring salt back to their villages, in order to prepare tastier meals. One time, they've ran out of salt and the villagers no longer enjoyed their tasteless meals and they wondered how they could get salt again. A child suggested that they should ask the giant to stretch out his legs over the ocean so that they could walk to his island instead. The kind giant agreed, and villagers with empty salt sacks walked along the giant's legs. Soon as the people reached the giant's island, he immediately withdrew his foot and scratched the itchy bites. Tiny ants affect the giant, so they idly chatted away, and walked rather slowly. Before the villagers could cross the ocean, the giant cried out and thrust his ant-bitten foot into the ocean and all the packed salt fell into the plain-water sea and melted. The giant saved the people from drowning, but no one was able to recover the spilled salt and that's why the sea is salty.


Actually we didn't know where and when this was written. But there's something I've learned about the story. We should be always be careful in order for us to be safe from harm and to live good.