Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables Part B
Overall Impression:
It was interesting to see the difference between the stories about animals and objects and people. They have the similar feel as the animals and objects are given human traits, but the situations they find themselves in are different. The animals are usually getting involved in things that would naturally occur in their environments, with the occasional over personification in a few stories. While the humans mainly deal with human matters. It is fun to get an inside perspective into the animal world by applying them with human traits, but it is also fun to see Aesop's logic in human experiences as well.
After reading part two, you can see a lot of similarities between morals and even repetitions of the same moral, just phrased slightly different. I think this makes these stories more digestible because the stories are reaffirming things you already learned in the past. This also deepens understanding as these stories are all so different, if you didn't understand the moral by one perspective, there are two or three more ahead with a different perspective and approach to it.
Likes/Dislikes:
I really liked the fox character again, something about witty tricksters is just really entertaining. It was also interesting to see this famous trickster get outsmarted or see how the fox's own wit could come back and haunt him.
I also enjoyed the stories about the Humans and God's and Family and friends. They were some of the most humorous stories in this section, but they also taught important lessons.
I didn't have too many dislikes, nothing particularly stood out. I just didn't enjoy the stories about wise and foolish people as much. They were shorter and I just didn't find them to be all that impactful.
Favorite Stories:
My favorite stories of this section would be: The Fox and the Crow, The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog, The Two Crabs, The Belly and the Members, Avaricious and Envious, The Man and the Satyr, The Old Man and Death, The Bundle of Sticks, and The Two Fellows and the Bear.
Bibliography: Aesop's Fables, from The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs.
It was interesting to see the difference between the stories about animals and objects and people. They have the similar feel as the animals and objects are given human traits, but the situations they find themselves in are different. The animals are usually getting involved in things that would naturally occur in their environments, with the occasional over personification in a few stories. While the humans mainly deal with human matters. It is fun to get an inside perspective into the animal world by applying them with human traits, but it is also fun to see Aesop's logic in human experiences as well.
After reading part two, you can see a lot of similarities between morals and even repetitions of the same moral, just phrased slightly different. I think this makes these stories more digestible because the stories are reaffirming things you already learned in the past. This also deepens understanding as these stories are all so different, if you didn't understand the moral by one perspective, there are two or three more ahead with a different perspective and approach to it.
Likes/Dislikes:
I really liked the fox character again, something about witty tricksters is just really entertaining. It was also interesting to see this famous trickster get outsmarted or see how the fox's own wit could come back and haunt him.
I also enjoyed the stories about the Humans and God's and Family and friends. They were some of the most humorous stories in this section, but they also taught important lessons.
I didn't have too many dislikes, nothing particularly stood out. I just didn't enjoy the stories about wise and foolish people as much. They were shorter and I just didn't find them to be all that impactful.
Favorite Stories:
My favorite stories of this section would be: The Fox and the Crow, The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog, The Two Crabs, The Belly and the Members, Avaricious and Envious, The Man and the Satyr, The Old Man and Death, The Bundle of Sticks, and The Two Fellows and the Bear.
(The Bundle of Sticks illustrated by Walter Crane.
Source: Aesop's Fables Family and Friends)
Bibliography: Aesop's Fables, from The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs.
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