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Exposition
Characters: Manyara, Mufaro, Nyasha, Nyoko/King
Setting: Africa -
Rising Action
Mufaro discovers that the king is looking for a wife and is honored to send his daughters to the village to meet him the next day. Manyara wants to marry the king and does not want anyone like her sister for her kindness. Nyasha is kind and giving to everyone. She becomes friends with the snake Nyoko. Manyara sneaks out at night to get to the village before her sister. Along the way she meets a little boy and is very rude to him. -
Climax
Manyara meets an old lady who tells her not to laugh at the trees and to be nice to new people that she meets. -
Period: to
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Plot
An overview of what happens throughout the story. It takes place over two days. -
Falling Action
Manyara laughs at the trees and disrespects the old man she meets after speaking with the old lady.
The next day Nyasha meets the boy and she is kind to him, she does not make fun of the trees and she is compassionate to the old man. -
Resolution
Manyara is afraid of the snake in the castle,
Nyasha discovers that the boy, the snake, the trees, the old woman, and the old man were all forms of the king. Since she was kind and compassionate, Nyasha is picked to be the King's Bride.
