DWA

You roam through the woods, at one with the forest, hunting birds. You blend into the scenery, quiet and quick. Throwing your net down, you catch the birds. The story was about a fowler named Hugh, who had to catch one hundred doves for the king's wedding. But one bird always escaped a white dove. He ended up with ninety-nine birds, and eventually he caught the white dove. This is where things started to not make since. He kills the dove, and it turns out it was the queen, though it is not very clear. The rest of the story just gets worse. It didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and the ending was just irrelevant.

First of all, how does the queen turn into a bird? I know it is fiction, so that pretty much justifies it. But I just did not get the rest of story. I know the white dove was the queen, even if it might not be that clear. I just could not figure out why. She transforms herself into a dove, flies around, gets caught, magically escapes, and then repeats. It just does not make any since. Then when Hugh catches him in his hands, why doesn't she use her magic or whatever it is to escape? Instead, she starts saying she will give him things like fame and fortune, which evidently does not work.

Hugh kills her; it is as simple as that. But I am almost certain Hugh knew she was the queen, so it makes no since to kill her. I suppose it was so he could be loyal to the king and have a hundred, but now the king didn't need them because the queen was dead, and there was no wedding. Whichever way you look at it, it is a catch 22. Maybe I am missing something, but I did not get the lesson, if there was one. It seems like it was supposed to have some sort of moral, especially because of the end, when it says he never saw another dove for the rest of his life. But what does that even have to do with anything? I have so many questions, but so little answers.

I do believe it was trying to teach me a lesson. But what that lesson was not that clear because of the contradiction. It seemed just like some weird fairy tale, but then it threw the ending in there. It feels that it tried to be all meaningful with a moral and all. I do kind of get the moral, which is the price of loyalty and all, but the dilemma of it all ended up being so redundant it didn’t make since. It ended as a quite pitiful attempt at trying to teach a lesson, and was quite gratuitous.