Faleasa's Three Tasks

In Pouliuli, Faleasa Osavae is a respected leader of Malaelus which is the Samoan society. One day, the seventy-six-year-old guy wakes up in the early morning with uncomfortable feeling. Spitting out phlegm, he thinks about what he has been through, and then he doesn't want to spend rest of his life with lots of duties and responsibilities. To be free, Faleasa thinks about Pili who is a mythological hero of Malaelua saga. As a demigod or lizard, Pili wants to be restored to human being. For Pili, becoming human means free. Therefore, Faleasa and Pili have the same goal, and they must fulfill three tasks given to them.
Pili’s three tasks are eating mountain of fish, racing the giants down a river and disappearing himself. Faleasa’s three tasks are inheriting his position to his hon, ruining Filemoni and giving

However, they can’t achieve their goal at the last stage. They could have done with their tasks and gotten free. They have been doing good, but Pili’s saga and Faleasa’s story come up short in fulfilling their dream.
In this novel, an author connects Faleasa’s story to Pili’s saga for better understanding. Faleasa and Pili have a couple of things in common. They want to be free from everything around them. Faleasa just need his own life not as a leader, and Faleasa wants to turn into human being for true freedom. To achieve their goals, they must carry out three tasks and those tasks are getting more challenging in order. Therefore, they get help from their close friends, and each of friends are helpful in every phase. However, their wish is in vain.
The major difference between them is that Faleasa is a person and Pili is a demigod. Faleasa is the old leader of the Samoan community and Pili is just mythological being. Faleasa’s tasks are realistic and related to his position and the future of his community. Pili’s tasks, on the other hand, are unrealistic and like Hercules’s 12