The story of the tiger cat and swallow Sinha was created by the late Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, as in most fables, its protagonists are animals with human characteristics, almost always the intention of these stories is to get out of teaching or morality: they have a didactic function and challenge an aspect of the human condition.
The narrative structure of this story is countered, i. e. its protagonists face subjective positions. However, this confrontation takes place in uneven conditions. For example, from a social point of view, this situation could arise between an upper-class person and a lower-class person. But due to an unforeseen narrative element, the situation changes.
- The story in question unfolds between the tiger cat and the Sinha swallow and takes place in a very wooded park inhabited by animals of various species.
- As the story unfolds.
- We realize that time.
- With its seasons.
- Creates an atmosphere that influences the mood of the characters.
“It is as impossible to light the fire with snow as to put out the fire of love with words. “Willian Shakespeare.
Jorge Amado describes the tiger cat as a middle-aged person, far from youth. “There was no creature in the neighborhood more selfish and lonely than the tiger cat. He had no friendly relations with his neighbors and hardly ever responded to the rare compliments. “who, out of fear and not out of kindness, some passers-by addressed him.
Nothing changed the day-to-day life of the park until spring with its cheerful colors, heady aromas and sound melodies. The tiger cat slept in the spring, sudden and powerful. But was his presence so insistent and strong that she woke him from his dream without dreams, opened his brown eyes, and stretched out his arms?
In this new spring state, the undergraduate cat experienced an unusual state of optimism. “She felt light, wanted to talk without obligation, walk aimlessly and even talk to someone. He looked around with his brown eyes, but saw no one. Far?
However, on the branch of a tree, swallow Sinha looked and smiled at the tiger cat. Meanwhile, inside their hiding places, all the inhabitants of the park looked in amazement at swallow Sinha ?.
Jorge Amado tells how he was the other protagonist of the story: “When she walked, laughed and flirted, there was no bird of marrying age that did not want it. He was still very young, but wherever he was, everyone in the park. “was coming.
He laughed with everyone, but he didn’t like anyone. He casually flew from tree to tree through the park; He was curious, loved to talk and was innocent at heart. In fact, there was no swallow as beautiful and sweet as the Sinha swallow in any nearby park.
The swallow spoke to the stray cat and even insulted him, a fact that other park dwellers saw as a death sentence for the bird, her parents had forbidden her to make connections with cats because they were the natural predators of birds, but she ignored the advice. and I talked to him.
That night, the swallow gently placed her head on the rose petal that served as a pillow and decided to continue her conversation with the cat the other day:?It’s ugly, but it’s nice ?? murmured as he fell asleep.
As for the tiger cat, he also thought of the skinny Swallow Sinh, however, there was something he didn’t have: a pillow, besides being ugly and bad, the tiger cat was poor and did he put his head in his arms?.
The cat was very tired and thought he was sick, so he realized that he had a fever and went to the lake to look for water to calm the burn he felt inside, and there, in the waters of the lake, he saw the reflection of the swallow Sinha looking at him 😕 Did you recognize it in every leaf, in every drop of dew, in every ray of sunlight at sunset and in every shadow of the approaching night? When he managed to fall asleep, “he dreamed of the swallow and it was the first time he had dreamed in many years. “
The tiger did not realize that he had fallen in love; He didn’t recognize his feelings. When he was young he had fallen in love many times, almost every week, but had never paid much attention to these feelings. In fact, he had broken many hearts. When he woke up, he remembered that he had dreamed of the swallow all night, but decided not to worry about it.
However, throughout the spring, he followed Swallow Sinh to speak and the subject never failed. They soon began to walk together in the park; he crossed the park and she accompanied him flying beside her. They wandered aimlessly and commented on the color of the flowers and the beauty of the world.
The tiger cat has undergone a transformation. He did not threaten other living things, he did not break flowers with his paws, he did not lift his hair when a stranger approached, he did not set aside the dogs by erecting them with whiskers, insulting them between his teeth, he became a gentle and gentle being. He was the first to greet the inhabitants of the park, who in the past did not respond to the greetings addressed to them.
At the end of summer, the swallow and cat dined together. As they spoke, the cat could not help it and told her that if she was not a cat, I would ask her to marry her. “That night, the swallow didn’t come back. The cat tried to understand what was happening to him and struggled with mixed feelings. Wrapped in sadness and loneliness, he decided to speak with the owl.
At first they talked about a number of unimportant topics, but the owl was wise and realized what was going on, and without waiting for him to ask, she told him the rumors in the park about his encounters with the swallow.
Everyone thought badly of him and that infuriated him. In the end, the old owl gave his opinion: “Old friend, there is nothing to do. How do you imagine that the swallow would accept you as a husband? There was never a romance. well, even though she loved him.
However, in the fall, the undergraduate cat returned to look for the swallow. He was serious and distant, he no longer smiled and did not show the same sympathy of other times. The cat couldn’t hide that he was very sad. The owl’s words echoed in his heart and he could only walk with the swallow silently.
That night, the tiger cat became the usual villain again, chased the black duck, scared the parrot, scribbled a dog’s snout, flew and threw goose eggs, all the inhabitants of the park spread the news and feared the cat, which seemed to be the embodiment of evil.
Within a few days, the cat received a letter from Andorinha Sinha, thanks to a traveling pigeon, in that document she said that a swallow could never marry a cat and that they should never see each other again.
However, he also added that he had never been happier than during walks in the park with him. He finished the note with a heart-burning phrase: “Always for you, Sinha. The tiger cat has read this letter several times until everything is kept in mind.
Some time later, the swallow appeared unannounced, she was as beautiful and tender as in spring. He acted as if nothing had happened, as if the distance between them had been diluted. The cat moved, but late in the afternoon, he knew the truth. “They stayed together until the night, and then she told her this would be the last time I would see her, because she was going to marry a nightingale. Why can’t a swallow marry a cat?
The tiger cat was devastated by the news, during the wedding he could not stand it and went to the party, the swallow, who knew the sound of his footsteps, knew that he was there, let one of his tears blow and fall into the cat’s hands.
This illuminated the solitary path of the undergraduate cat at night without stars. Did the cat take the direction of the narrow paths leading to the crossing of the end of the world?Decidedly, a beautiful story that reminds us of the eternal sadness of the impossible. Loves.