STORY RETELLING T H E E LVE S - MARÍA JOSÉ CHIONG
SETTING • Shoe store and Shoemaker house.
CHARACTERS • Shoemaker • Shomaker’s wife • The elves • The buyer
PROBLEM • The shoemaker only had a piece of cloth, because he was poor he could not buy more.
HAPPENINGS H E WA S P O O R , A N D O N L Y H A V E A P I E C E O F L E A T H E R A N D WA S E X H A U S T E D , H E W E N T TO S L E E P .
HAPPENINGS T H E N E X T D A Y, T H E SHOES WERE MADE AND D I S C O V E R E D T H AT W E R E N A K E D E LV E S W H O D I D I T.
HAPPENINGS • His wife make cloth for the elves and were happy. And as long as the shoemaker lived all went well with him, and all his efforts prospered.
SOLUTION • The elves made the shoes with the only piece of leather, so the shoemaker could sell the shoes and earn money to buy more fabric and do more shoes to prosper.