Week 2 Reading Diary B

This is the Reading B of Aesop’s Fables. The story of The Eagle and the Arrow was interesting because of its moral. With the moral being "We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction," it reminded me how the bad guys in movies and Saturday cartoons always loses to the good guy because they revealed their evil plans to rule the world to them. The Ant and the Grasshopper was a relatable story to me because I have been in both the grasshopper and the ant’s place. No matter what situation I was in, being prepared was always the better than winging it last minute. In the story of The Woodman and the Serpent, the moral reminded me of my girlfriend’s ex-roommate. Her ex-roommate would never show any gratitude or appreciation towards my girlfriend and her other two better roommates whenever they would do something nice for her. This last school year my girlfriend and the other two roommates got fed up with the ex-roommate and severed their ties with her this summer like how the woodman severed the serpent in half. The Wind and the Sun was an interesting story because the moral seems like it doesn’t quite fit it. The moral was that “Kindness effects more than severity” but both the wind and the sun were mean to the traveler since they used him as their way of competition. Neither the wind nor the sun were kind to the traveler. The story about The Man and His Mother has a very true moral which says “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.” There are quite a lot of spoiled and ignorant people out there whose parents spoiled them and never really discipline them to be a better person. However, we are all somehow alike our parents in one way or another.

The Ant and The Grasshopper