Character Analysis: The Foolish Men Of Agra

The Foolish Men of Agra along with Arap Sang and the Cranes are similar as well as different in countless ways. Both characters in the stories were being foolish. In the first text, the leader asked a wise man to find six foolish men. When he brought back four, he said, “the other two men are you and me.” In the second text, the chief gave cranes a glorious crown to the cranes for helping him. But, roughly all of the cranes died due to of the shining crown. In The Foolish Men of Agra, Akbar was trying to outsmart Birbal, who is very wise. He tells Birbal to find six of the utmost foolish men. Birbal finds one, who fell into a puddle when he was seize fabric for his wife. He was trying to arise without using his palms, for fear that he would

When Birbal asked why he was running, the man said that he was trying to catch the sound of his own voice. At night, Birbal found the fourth man. The man had lost his shining ring in the darkness moreover he was looking for it in the light. When Birbal asked the man why not look for in in the darkness, he said, “How do you expect me to find it in the dark?” When Birbal went back to Akbar to tell him he found the men, Akbar said that he only found four. Birbal said that he miscounted; Akbar was upset. “The other two foolish men are you and I. You, Jahanpanah, by reason of that you set me such a foolish task. I, as a result of that I carried it out.” In Arap Sang and the Cranes, the chief Arap Sang, who was considered an idol, was walking on a truly hot day and he wanted shades, but the trees had no leaves so the sun went right through them. Arap saw a vulture and he asked the vulture to give him shade with his broad wings. The chief was bald and he didn’t like to talk about it. When the vulture said, “Oh, go home, Baldy, and stop bothering people; it’s hot.”; it made him genuinely mad. As a consequence, he turned all vultures

But the elephant did not, for it was bustling to obtain shade in a forest. When the chief could not take another step and sat on the ground, a flock of cranes came by, he asked them to help him to receive shade. They spread out their feathers while slowly helping him walk to the shady forest. When he felt exceptional, he repaid the cranes by giving them a beautiful bright crown atop their heads.Two months later, a crane came looking starved. When he asked what was wrong, she said, “Great Chief, we beg you to take back your gift. If you don’t, there’ll soon be not one crane left alive, for we are hunted day and night for the sake of our glorious crowns.” Arap felt foolish for giving them a gift that had made their lives worse. So he took back the gift, and instead, he gave them a crown of feathers. In both stories, the characters were being foolish in different ways. In The Foolish Men of Agra, Akbar was being foolish for sending out Birbal to complete a foolish task; while Birbal is being foolish for accomplishing the task. In Arap Sang and the Cranes, the chief Arap Sand was being foolish for giving the cranes a gift that he hadn’t thought how favorable it would be for them. In return, the beautiful cranes were practically hunted to extinction. That is how the story The Foolish Men of Agra along with the story Arap Sang and the Cranes compare