This story is about a plumber who falls in love with a
princess. First he goes to see her and he tells her that he loves her and wants
her to marry him. The princess rejects the plumber immediately, claiming that
she is too good for him, for of course she is a princess. The plumber leaves
but has no intention of giving up. He goes home and builds a marriage machine,
and the next day goes to the castle to present the machine to the princess,
sure that it will impress her enough to marry him. When he gets there a maid
opens the door, when the plumber tells the maid who he is the maid leaves
claiming that she is going to get the princess but she never comes back.
Finally the plumber leaves but on his way out he gets stopped by a talking
frog. The frog tells him that he is giving up too easily and that the princess
does not want gadgets, she wants a man who is greater than her.
The plumber
leaves, angry and the frog. He gets on a bus to go home and sits beside a young
girl who tells him she is in a nightmare and not to speak to her. The next day
the plumber goes back to the castle, but when the maid answers the door he is
shocked to find that she has shrivelled away and is extremely thin. The plumber
asks her what happened and she tell him that a terrible plague has fallen over
the castle and everyone is wasting away and dying. Unable to see the princess
the plumber leaves and again sees the frog. The frog tells him that it is his
fault that everyone in the castle is sick. Again the plumber leaves, angry at
the frog, and gets on the bus where he once again sits next to the same little
girl who now looks ill from her nightmare. The next day the plumber goes back
to the castle to find the princess dead, and a new frog who talks to him, but
one who was young yesterday and is an old man today. The plumber cries.
This story made absolutely no sense to me. I feel like maybe
I missed something, but all the pages were in my book. If the reason for
everyone getting sick really was the plumber, why wasn’t that explained? And
who was the girl on the bus? I am very confused, and do not like this story.
There are way too many holes, I feel like maybe it just wasn’t completed.
A.L. Azeer Ahamed
MAPT 19/B1/31
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