Wednesday, 9 November 2016

AESOP'S FABLES

FABLES ARE SHORT STORIES WITH A MORAL


CHOOSE ONE OF AESOP'S FABLES FROM THIS LINK: READ THE FABLE and write a brief summary of it and its moral

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  1. Fable: The Man and the Satyr

    Summary: A man is lost in a cold night, and a Satyr (a creature similar to a centaur) takes pity on him, deciding to let him stay in his house for the night. The man's hands are cold, and he blows on them. The Satyr asks why, and the man tells the creature that he's using his breath to warm up his hands. Then the Satyr offers him a plate of food, but it's too hot, so the man blows on it. He expains the reason: with his breath, he can also cool down the food. The Satyr then decides to kick him out, because he won't trust a man who has a breath that can be warm and cool.

    Moral: We shouldn't trust people who contradict themselves, because they might betray our trust.

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  2. fable: the man and the wooden god
    back in time there was a man which worshipped wood and wooden idols. The man prayed to the wooden idol that he inherited from his father. The years passed but the man's luck didn't change. One day the idol broke into two and what did the man see? He saw coins flying all over the place

    moral: never loose hope

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  3. Fable: The Dog and the Wolf

    Summary: A wolf who was starving to death met a house-dog. The dog offered to take the wolf to his master so that he could share his work with him and so that the wolf would get food regularly for doing some work. The wolf agreed, until he noticed that the dog's hair was very worn away on his neck. The dog said that at night he got chained up, so the wolf decided he'd reader starve than lose his freedom.

    Moral: Better starve free than be a fat slave

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  4. Fable: The Dog and the Wolf

    Summary: A wolf who was starving to death met a house-dog. The dog offered to take the wolf to his master so that he could share his work with him and so that the wolf would get food regularly for doing some work. The wolf agreed, until he noticed that the dog's hair was very worn away on his neck. The dog said that at night he got chained up, so the wolf decided he'd reader starve than lose his freedom.

    Moral: Better starve free than be a fat slave

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  5. Fable: The Goose with the golden eggs

    Summary: A countryman went to the nest of his goose and he founded a yellow egg, he was going to throw it but then he discovered that it was an golden egg, this continue to happen every day and he became very rich selling the eggs but, because he wanted more, he thought that inside the goose he will find all the gold and he killed his goose, but when he opened it, he discover that anything was there.

    Moral: We don´t have to be too avaricious, because we can stay with nothing.

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  6. Fable: the Ant and the Grasshopper
    Summary: it's about a lazy Grasshopper that didn't want to work during the seasons of abundant food so when the winter came he hadn't food not as the ants that had been all the summer and spring collecting food for winter.
    Moral: it is best to prepare for days of necessity

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  7. Fable: The two Frogs.

    Summary: Two frogs were in a lake, it was very hot so, the lake got dry.
    The two frogs decide to move to another lake, on of them saw a very deep lake and said to the other one that why do they do not stay and do their houses there, the other one answer tha it was very deep so, how they were going to go out of the lake when they want.

    Moral: Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.

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  8. Fable:The rabbit and the turtle
    One day a turtle challenge to the rabbit to do a race to see who wad the faster.The rabbit accepted the challange.When the race began the rabbit started to ran very fast he stop in the half of the race because he was tired and he knows that the turtle was very far but he slept in the grass and finally the turtle won the race
    Moral:never underestimate the weakest opponent.

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  9. The story is about a lion and a mouse.
    The mouse woke the lion and the lion wanted to eat it, but he let it escape because he was scared to hear the idea of ​​the mouse;that one day the mouse wanted to save the lion.
    One day the mouse saw the lion trapped in a trap, then the mouse bit the ropes that had trapped it.

    Moral: if someone does you a favor or helps you do the same for him

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  10. Fable: The man and the two wives
    Summary: Is about a men of the Meddle-Age that was marry with two wives one younger and one older. After some time the men's hair started to tern grey so the younger wife decided to take at night all his grey hair so he don't look so older,but the older wife started to take him all his black hair so he don't look so younger. After some time the men was bald.
    Moral: Don't marry with 2 wives of very different ages

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  11. Fable: The Lion and the Statue
    Summary: A man and a lion were discussing about what breed was stronger, the man said that the man was stronger because was more intelligence.
    He tooks the lion to a statue were Hercules was killing a lion and the man said that there was the prove, the lion said that if lions knew how to do sculptures there were a lot of sculptures of lions killing men.
    Moral:It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story.
    I'm Gonzalo

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  13. Fable:The Sick Lion
    Summary---------> A lion was about to die, when he was in his cave preparing to die when his slaves approached and began to beat him for everything he had done and the lion as he was about to die was defenseless.
    Moral------------------->Never hurting anyone because you end up paying when you least need it

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  14. The Hart in the Ox Stall-An Aesop's Fable

    The Hart had told some boys to look at a place to see if they find an strange object between the trees but they didn't find nothing. Then the master came and saw a strange thing,two stranget things and send the boys to look what was that and gave it to the master.
    He'said conclusion is that nothing escapes from the eye of the master.

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  15. The dog in the manger
    It's about a dog that wanted to take a nap. So he entered un the manger of the Ox. When he returned beacuse he was hungry, the dog woke Up and started barkining the Ox and the dog try to bite him. So de Ox had to vive the dog the straw
    Conclussion:enjoy your life and dont grudge other's lifes

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