[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-92499-en":3,"doc-seo-92499-105":28,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":90},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":11,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":11,"is_downloadable":11,"audit_status":11,"page_count":20,"language":21,"language_code":22,"site_id":23,"html_lang":22,"table_of_contents":24,"faqs":25,"seo_title":13,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":26,"read_time":27},92499,8796095461564,"Liam","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d",1,"Story & Novel","The Woodcutter of Gura-A Folktale from Ethiopia - A Tale About a Stubborn Woodcutter’s Lesson","A woodcutter from Gura sets out for firewood and climbs a large olive tree, where he chops the very branch he is sitting on. A village priest warns him that the branch will break and that he will fall and die, but the woodcutter refuses to change position. After a sudden crack, the prediction comes true and confusion follows as friends debate his fate and the route back home. The story emphasizes wisdom, humility, and listening to advice.","The Woodcutter of Gura-A Folktale from Ethiopia  \nAuthor: Veena Seshadri  \nIllustrator: Greystroke  \nEnglish Story Book  \nThe Woodcutter of Gura-A Folktale from Ethiopia  \nAuthor: Veena Seshadri  \nIllustrator: Greystroke Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger  \nPratham Books  \nEnglish  \nThe Woodcutter of GuraA Folktale from Ethiopia Author: Veena Seshadri  \nIllustrator: Greystroke  \nCopyright © 2006, Pratham Books  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOne sunny morning, the woodcutter of Gura set out to get some firewood. He walked across the plain until he came to the great big olive tree by the river. He climbed the tree and perched himself at the end of the largest branch. Then he made himself comfortable, swung his axe, and began to cut the branch on which he was sitting.  \nThe village priest, who was passing by, looked up atthe woodcutter and stopped to talk to him.“Brother, what are you doing?” he cried.“That’s no way to chop wood!”  \n“What other way is there?” answered the woodcutter.“If you want wood, you must lift your axe and keep going chop-chop-chop!\"  \n“But you’re sitting at the end of the branch and chopping it in the middle! The branch will break, and when it does, you’ll fall down and die,” warned the priest.  \nThe woodcutter thought the priest was joking. In any case, he was stubborn and lazy, and didn’t want to getup and change his position, so the priest shook his head and walked away. And the woodcutter sat exactly where he was, and went chop-chop-chop, once again.  \nSuddenly, there was a mighty loud c-r-a-c-k, and down crashed the branch, the man and his axe!  \nAs he lay on the ground, dazed and bewildered and aching everywhere, the woodcutter remembered his conversation with the priest.  \n“The priest said three things – that the branch would break, that I would fall…and be killed. The priest was right. The branch broke just as he said it would, and I fell too.  \nThe priest is indeed a very wise man, so whatever he says must be true. Ah, me! Then I must be dead!”It did not take the woodcutter long to convince himself that he was really dead. So he just closed his eyes and lay on the ground without moving. After awhile, his friends came along and called out to him, but the woodcutter lay perfectly still. They shook him and splashed water on his faced. But the woodcutter neither spoke nor moved as he had made up his mind that he was quite dead.  \nThey tried to make him stand, but the woodcutter thought to himself,“Surely, a dead man can’t stand up!”  \nand promptly fell down again. Now his friends too were convinced that he was dead. So they lifted him up and began to carry him back to the village.“Pick up my axe!” shouted the woodcutter, and they did.  \nSoon they came to a fork in the path and there they stopped. Should they turn right or left? The friends stood there and began to argue long and loud.  \nThe woodcutter got so irritated that he sat up and pointed out the way. Then he lay down and shut his eyes again. And his friends carried him to the village saying,“Ah, what a clever man! He always knew the answer to everything. What a pity he’s dead!”  \nSoon they reached the woodcutter’s house, but found no one at home. So they put him on the floor and began to argue about what they should do next.","cbCaiohLc7AAs6T4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiohLc7AAs6T4","pdf",29046764,20,"English","en",105,"# One Sunny Morning\n## The Priest’s Warning\n# The Branch Breaks\n## Believing He Is Dead\n# The Way Back Home","[{\"question\":\"What does the village priest warn the woodcutter about?\",\"answer\":\"The priest warns that chopping while sitting at the end of the branch is dangerous, that the branch will break, and that the woodcutter will fall and die.\"},{\"question\":\"Why doesn’t the woodcutter change his chopping position?\",\"answer\":\"He believes the priest is joking and is stubborn and lazy, so he refuses to move.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the woodcutter and his friends react after the branch breaks?\",\"answer\":\"After the crash, the woodcutter convinces himself he is dead and lies still. 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