Answer to Question #299852 in English for Phillip

Question

Provide a setting and conflict information based on the folktale, how fire was discovered_A Tswana tale,retold by Nick Greaves

Answer 1

Folklore refers to the traditional beliefs, myths, art and customs of a specific community, which are passed on from generation to generation in the form of stories. These stories are called folktales. Folktales often explain things that happen in nature or pass on some truth about life and human nature. 

setting: In the beginning, all he ate were the roots, bulbs and fruit provided by Mother Nature in the bush that surrounded him. If he ate any meat, he ate it raw. However, most of the time, he relied on one of the greater gifts provided by Modimo – the ‘Hidden One’, as they called the Creator – which was cow’s milk. Milk was the daily drink of both young and old. There was little to trouble Man, for the sun kept him warm by day and animal skins kept him warm by night. In the beginning, the weather did not vary much between summer and winter and the climate was not as extreme as it can be today. Life was good and Man felt most fortunate indeed.

conflict: And so it was that Man learnt to improve his food by cooking it and how to quench fire with water. First, he roasted the roots and vegetables that grew in the bush and then he learnt to cook the raw flesh of the animals that he kept and hunted