Worth Its Weight in Gold

Another creature has lived for a very long time on the Island where Captain Parr lives. Nobody knows how it got to the Island. The Island has always been here, and the creature has always been on the Island. This creature is a cheerful, kind Monkey, a Great inventor who loves to create. She creates slides from coconuts, huts from vines and bamboo, sculptures from bananas, and fascinating sand castles.

Whatever the Monkey creates, she always does it on the shore. And even Moody Water doesn't dare to touch these beautiful "cre-creations". Not creations, but specifically "cre-creations". For those who don't understand, the Monkey repeats this word syllable by syllable. She even taught Captain Parr to pronounce it that way by syllables. Every time the Monkey builds her next masterpiece, she invites Captain Parr to look at what came out. He walks around with an air of importance and repeats: "Cre-cre-a-ti-ons! A thousand devils! Cre-cre-a-ti-ons!" The Monkey has no idea who these "a thousand devils" are, and Captain Parr has no idea what these "cre-cre-a-ti-ons" are. But ignorance doesn't hurt anyone. She listens to his exciting stories about sea voyages; he looks at her magic creations, and both admire each other. Isn't this what harmony is?

However, this wasn't always the case. When Captain Parr got to the Island, everything was different. He was a malicious and lonely "non-hero". Either out of envy or boredom, he destroyed every "cre-creation" he discovered. But the Monkey never reacted to this at all. She pretended Captain Parr and his dirty tricks didn't exist in space and time and continued to create.

The long, hot days dragged on, and Captain Parr got tired of being a scoundrel. First of all, it was boring because no one was impressed. Secondly, Parr had a complex character and liked to lie, but still was not a wicked creature by nature. Therefore, every time he broke somebody's creation, he felt remorse. Everything was decided by chance. One day, the Monkey created a new castle. Captain Parr waited for her to move further away and rushed to smash the castle in tatters.

He was so carried away by the destruction process that he didn't notice how he choked on sand. Captain Parr began to cough so that his feathers flew in different directions. Then, out of nowhere, a Monkey appeared. She grabbed Captain Parr by the legs and shook him as hard as she could until she shook all the sand out of his throat.

After the incident, they sat on the shore and admired the sunset. Captain Parr thought, "I destroyed all her creations, but she saved me." And the Monkey thought there was a lot of sand in the world, but goodness was worth its weight in gold.