Reading Part B: Aesop's Fables Part B

I enjoyed part A of the fables more than I did the latter. The first half had a little bit longer stories with more substance. Reading part B is like reading short stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul. They all have some lesson to learn from them, but each one doesn't exactly connect to the rest. It is hard to stay focused.

The main notes that I took from these stories were the ending sentence that explains the lesson that was taught in the fable. I have not heard of some of them and with the others, I have heard them in other forms.

“You may be a treasure to men that prize you, but for me, I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls.” This is a quote from one of the fables in the Birds, Part 2 section. I found this interesting because I have never heard it phrased in this way.

“Never believe a captive’s promise; that’s one thing. Then again: Keep what you have. And third piece of advice is: Sorrow not over what is lost forever.” “We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.” I believe that these two quotes go hand in hand. I could tie this in with the Lion in the Cave fable in Part A.

If I went with my original plan for the storytelling assignment, I found another part I could add. I thought that Edward Scissorhands ,aka the Lion, just wanted to be loved and give love, but the world would not let him, so he took his revenge on those around him.

Aesop's Fables by Joseph Jacobs: link here

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