Three Strong Women

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This is short story called “Three Strong Women” retold by Claus Stamm. Claus Stamm has lived in Japan, where he heard this story and decided to retell it in English. Long ago, in Japan there lived a famous wrestler called Forever-Mountain. Forever-Mountain learns humility and strength when he meets three women all much stronger than him. The three strong women decided to make a really strong man out of him. For three months, they train him and they gave him the simplest food to eat. They were feeding me with rice every day until he gets big. He grew up stronger. When he finally reaches the capital after their training. Forever-Mountain defeats all the other wrestlers at the Emperor’s palace, wins the prize money, and is asked never to wrestle again. He renounces wrestling and retires to become a farmer. He is happy to become a farmer and marry the youngest of the three strong women who served him so well. Forever-Mountain kept his promise to the emperor and never fought in public again.

First of all, they called him Negrito because he was darker than coals. He walked everywhere he went and he'd never get into a car or a bus. That’s why he got so dark; normally he is a light skin since he was born. He was exposed too much in the light. He had muscles with all his veins were out and his head was smaller than his body. He was a tiny boy too, short and skinny. His body was kind of weird because his upper body was bigger than his lower body they used to call him “SpongeBob” in middle school. Negrito was a nice boy with a good attitude and an amazing ascent.

Second, Negrito was a shy boy but liked to meet new people. He knew a lot of people in his school because of soccer. Soccer is his passion. He liked a girl when he was in middle school but he had to leave for France to play Soccer for two years. He didn’t try anything with her. Two years passed he comes back to his hometown England. He was attending a private school he ended up in the same class with the girl he...