There lived five friends who are sculptors living in different villages. The name of the sculptors are Joe, King, Brown, Prince and Van. The villages they are living in are Obo, Twenedruase, Obomeng, Mpraeso and Atibie.
All these sculptors are married to their wives born with children. They like pets and the pet they admire most keeping in their houses is parrot.
These five sculptors are always busy and hardworking men who don't joke with their work. One day they had their leisure time so they organised a meeting and during the meeting they plan to carve a wood to make it look like them.
So they agreed by concluding to create their own images using a wood to make the sculpt eat any food their wives cook for them and also for their generation to know that they came to live in this world.
Because they are living in the village, they don't let their children go to school but they let them follow them to their workshops to learn their skills (sculpture) thinking that one day when they are dead and gone their children will inherit their occupation.
The five sculptors are very respected and well known in their various villages because they are hardworking and trustworthy. They make sure to finish and deliver their work on time by not playing mindgames with their customers, they don't play with their job because of their personality.
The kind of character they have, non of their customers have never complained about them before. That makes them unique by making people to refer them to other people for them to get a lot of customers and keeping them always busy.
When one of the sculptors are facing challenges by executing a work they organise a meeting for everyone to bring his idea and boom in a twinkle of an eye a solution will pop up.
Do you know why because they are united and unity is strength. The sculptors are too loyal to the extend that there isn't a problem that has overwhelmed them since they started their career.
That has given them experience in dealing with problems. Do you know that when you are able to solve problems, it makes you physically and mentally strong?
Hey as you started reading this story you haven't ask me any question. I think you are going to ask me What is a sculpture or Who is a sculptor?
Okay the definition of a sculpture is the art of making two or three dimensional representative or abstract forms by carving a stone or a wood, by casting a metal or a plaster.
A sculptor is an artist who makes sculptors. So these five sculptors begin their journey or plan of carving a wood to make it resemble them( lookalike ).
In the villages the sculptors live, there is no electricity, no photo studio for them to go take a picture and print it out so that they can look on and carve.
Even though they can look into a mirror and get their clear picture they did an unimaginable thing by telling themselves to carve each other the way they see.
They started the carving process and Joe carved his best friend King making the wood work come out successful resembling his friend.
King who's sculpt is ready also carved his friend Joe and he did a good work. Brown also carved Prince and it was excellent. Prince who is the fourth sculptor did magic carving Brown.
Now it's left with the fifth sculptor who is Van and because all his friends who want to carve him, they voted by tossing a coin and Brown won. Brown carved Van without making any mistake. The five sculptors became happy that day after they have finish with their work.
Every sculptors house in their villages they have a separate room for Keeping their works is where they keep their lookalike sculpts. Let me remind you that the day the five sculptors had a meeting their pets the parrots were there listening to what was going on until the meeting ended.
Parrots are so clever to the extend that they can talk and communicate the whole day. After their owners finished with their meeting, the parrots also went to have their meeting planning about what they are going to do to beat the sculptors dream.
After the five sculptors have kept their sculpt in their separate room they began to tell their wifes by giving them orders that from today any food they will cook they should make it two plates for each.
When their virtuous wives asked their husbands who are the sculptors What are they using two plates of food for? The five sculptors answered their wives that one plate is for their lookalike sculpt.
Their wives were astonished beginning to murmur and asking them questions that can a sculpt eat? Because they respect, love their husbands they obeyed the orders their husbands gave to them.
Day one the wives of the five sculptors begin to cook two plates of food one for their husbands and one for the sculpts. After the five sculptors have finish eating their food, they take the other plate to the sculpt because they don't allow neither their wives or their children to take the food.
Oh I didn't tell you earlier that every room the sculptors keep their lookalike sculpts has a door and an open window. So everytime they take the food to their sculpt they make sure they lock the door and keep the key in their pocket.
After the five sculptors return from where they take the food to the sculpts their parrots will also fly through the window to go and eat the food.
The next day early in the morning the sculptors will go and open the door where they have been keeping their sculpts and they will see that the sculpts have consume the food.
Day two the wives of the sculptors will cook delicious dishes of two plates one for their husbands one for the sculpts. The sculptors will finish eating their food and take the other plate to the sculpts making sure they lock the doors and keep the keys in their pocket by doing the same thing.
After they return back home or to their workshops their parrots will fly and go and eat the food they have given to the sculpts. Early in the morning the sculptors will go and open the door and check, they will witness that the sculpts have eaten the food.
Day three the obedient wives of the five noble sculptors will cook food for the family and prepare two plates. Their husbands will eat their food and take the second plate to the sculpts and make sure to lock the door and keep the keys in their pocket.
After they return back home to their various workshops their parrots will go and eat the food of the sculpts. Early in the morning they will wake up and go and check they will testify that the sculpts have eaten the food.
I can feel your emotions and I can see a whole lot of questions bubbling up in your mind that; Where have the sculptors been keeping their parrots?
Do the sculptors lock the parrots or not?
Do they give the parrots some of the food?
Let me go straight to your first question, the answer to your question is that the sculptors have been keeping the parrots outside under a shelter. The second answer is they have been putting the parrots in an open cage. The third answer is the food they have been given the parrots is not sufficient.
These great men kept on ordering their wives to cook dishes for their family and preparing plates for the sculpts for so many years because they believe their lookalike sculpt have been eating the food.
The joy they have in their heart for making the impossible possible made them tell the people of the village. Some of the people believed in what the sculptors told them, some also didn't believe.
It's obvious that in this world we are living in, you can dream, plan, create or produce something but not everyone will agree with you. Some people will even criticize you.
The same thing happened to these sculptors when they told the people. They never let criticism overshadow their belief or discourage them, they kept on holding their faith.
So the sculptors lookalike eating sculpts became the topic or news in the whole village. Everywhere you will see two, three or a group of people gathered together it's either they are gossiping about the sculptors eating sculpts.
Chapter 2
The Controversy
The sculptors had challenges in the hands of their critics everyday but the people who believe them always praise them in the village for making the impossible become possible.
Their critics became united and formed a strong team where they gathered together to have a meeting about not believing what the sculptors told the whole people in the village. So they agreed to investigate the matter.
They planned that whenever the five wives of the sculptors cook food for their family they will go and spy if it is true that the sculptors give their lookalike sculpts some of the food or not.
Day one the five wives of the sculptors cooked breakfast for their family and prepared two plates one for their husband one plate for their husbands lookalike sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their breakfast they take the second plate of food and give it to the sculpts in the room where they keep them.
Don't forget that when the sculptors are taken the food to their lookalike sculpts the people in the village who have plan to spy them to verify if it's true that the sculptors give their sculpts every food their wives cook for them are always hiding and watching.
During the afternoon the wives of the sculptors cook lunch for their family and prepare two plates one for their husband one plate for the sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their lunch they take the second plate to the room where they keep their lookalike sculpts. When they are going to give the food to the sculpts their critics will be hiding somewhere and spying them.
In the evening the five virtuous wives of the five sculptors cook supper for their family and prepare one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands lookalike sculpts.
After the sculptors finish eating their supper they take the second plate to the sculpts and make sure they lock the door and keep the keys everytime they open the room where they keep their lookalike sculpts.
As their critics have plan to spy them to look for the truth, they make sure in the morning when the five wives of the sculptors are cooking food they will go and spy until the food is ready for them to serve their family and their husbands lookalike sculpts.
In the afternoon their critics will make sure they will go and spy when the wives of the sculptors are cooking lunch. The critics hide until the food is ready for the five wives of the sculptors to serve their family and the sculpts.
In the evening the critics make sure they go and spy when the wives of the sculptors are cooking supper. The critics hide until the food is ready for the wives of the sculptors to serve their family and the sculpts.
Day two in the morning the five wives of the five sculptors will go to the market and buy groceries to come home and cook breakfast for their family. The wives of the sculptors prepare one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands lookalike sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their breakfast they take the other plate of food to their sculpts in the room where they keep them and make sure they lock the door and keep the key in their pocket.
When these activities are going on their critics are also around spying them to see if the five sculptors are taking some of the food to their lookalike sculpts.
In the afternoon the wives of the sculptors will cook lunch for their family and prepare one plate for their husbands and one plate for their husbands sculpts.
After their husbands have finish eating their lunch, they take the second plate to their lookalike in the room where they keep them and make sure they lock and keep the keys in their pocket.
During the evening the five wives of the five sculptors will cook supper for their family and prepare two plates one for their husband one plate for the sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their food they take the second plate to their lookalike sculpts and make sure they lock the door and keep the keys in their pocket.
Day three the same activities went on in the morning, afternoon and in the evening as the critics spy the wives of the sculptors when they are cooking and waiting to see with their naked eyes if it's true the sculptors give their lookalike sculpts the food their wives cook. Fortunately they witness everything that went on and had evidence.
Chapter 3
The Conspiracy
The critics of the five sculptors continue to spy the sculptors for so many years even though they have proof. Some of the critics were still not convinced of the proof they have even they saw everything vividly by themselves.
So they unite again and convince other people in the village to join them to help them spy the five sculptors to get a concrete evidence if it's true that the sculptors lookalike sculpts eat every food they give them in the room where they keep them.
After the critics had a meeting planning to spy once again the sculptors to get concrete evidence, some of the people who were present that day at the meeting went to tell the sculptors what the people of the village have plan about them.
On the first day in the morning when the wives of the five sculptors cook breakfast for their family and prepare two plates one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands lookalike sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their breakfast, they take the second plate to the sculpts. They make sure to lock the door and keep the keys in their pocket.
Their critics will spy until it's in the afternoon then thy will go and call the five sculptors that they want to check if it's true their lookalike eat every food they give to them.
Even if the sculptors don't want to open the door of the room where they keep their sculpts, their critics will resist and force them to open the door.
After the sculptors have open the door, the critics want to enter the room with the sculptors even though the sculptors don't want them to enter the room.
But the critics will resist the sculptors and enter the room with them. After they enter the room with the sculptors they will see that the sculpts have eaten the food.
In the afternoon the wives of the sculptors will cook lunch for their family and prepare one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands lookalike sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their lunch, they go and give their sculpts the second plate. After they have given their sculpts the food their critics will continue to spy until it's evening.
Then they will go and call the sculptors that they want to check if their lookalike sculpts have eaten the food. The five sculptors will open the door of the room where they keep the sculpts, their critics will enter the room with the sculptors and they will witness that the sculpts have eaten their lunch.
In the evening the wives of the sculptors will cook supper for their family and serve one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands sculpts.
After the sculptors have finish eating their supper, they go and give their sculpts their food. When they are giving their sculpts the food, their critics will spy until the next day.
When it's the next day early in the morning they go and call the sculptors that they want to check if their lookalike sculpts have eaten the supper they gave them.
The sculptors will open the door of the room their critics will enter the room with the sculptors, they will have evidence that the sculpts have eaten their food.
On the second day the same activities went on after the wives of the sculptors have finish cooking breakfast for their family and serve their husbands and prepare one plate for their husbands lookalike sculpts.
In the afternoon after the wives of the sculptors have finish cooking lunch for their family and preparing one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands sculpts, the same activities went on during the noon.
In the evening the same activities went on after the wives of the five sculptors have finish cooking supper for their family and serve their husband one plate also for the sculpts until the next day.
On the third day the same activities went on in the morning, afternoon and in the evening after the wives of the five sculptors have finish cooking breakfast, lunch and supper for their family one plate for their husband one plate for their husbands sculpts.
The critics of the sculptors checked and controlled the sculptors for years even though they had evidence. But some of the critics were convinced others also were not convinced at all.