The short story” Talk African (Ashanti) Folk Tale” asserts the theme don’t put down the non-important things in life. In the story a gardener was headed out to his garden to get his yam, he started to dig his yam up when all of a sudden the yam said, “Well at last you’re here. You never weeded me, but now you come around with your digging stick. Go Away and leave me alone” (358). This helps explain my theme because the man was putting down his yam but then the yam talked to gardener and scared him. The gardener was running towards the village when he saw a fisherman with a fish trap on his head asked him what he was doing. The gardener told the fisherman about what happened and the fisherman asked the gardener,” Is that so frightening?” And
