Reading Notes Aesop's Fables (Jacobs), Part A

 Aesop's Fables: Lion, Part 1

These were a collection of short stories while some were very short with a minor point a few of them stuck with me more than the others. The first two seem to go together although not in chronology seeming to be from more than a 100 lines/ pages apart but the lion was bigger so got whatever he wants but the same way that he used his power when he was the strongest when he was sick and needed help everyone did not only turn on him but actually attacked him getting their vengeance. The next story was about a slave and the lion and the message is that if you go out of your way to help someone it may end up helping you out in the future. Then there were two stories about the lion and the statue and these were my favorite it talked about how the person who makes a statue gets to tell the story how they want to and this makes me think of how the victor gets to tell their version of the story and makes me think about how history is very rarely objective no matter how hard we try to be because it is so hard to see every side of history.

 

(Lion and the Statue)

Aesop's Fables: Lion, Part 2

These stories about the lion seemed slightly different than the last but each still had a message that could be learned from them. The first two were about a lion who was in love and made a sacrifice to appease the parents but after it was made he didn't get what he wanted. Something interesting that I learned was the lion was always assumed to be male maybe I could do a piece with a powerful female lion in pride that would rule a forest or something and how they would work together. They could maybe be smarter and craftier than a male near them and have comparisons like that. There was the story about ox's who would work together but when they let a disagreement split them up they all died. The final story was about the lion and a fox or an ass who was observant and didn't go into seeing a dying lion because they noticed all who went in did not return.

Aesop's Fables: Wolves 

This starts out with the wolf and the lamb which was a story of how the wolf didn't need a reason because he could make up any reason to eat the lamb making him a tyrant. The next story was about the wolf who got help from the crane but the only thanks received by the crane was his life. The wolf and the kid is about a kid who can be brave from a distance the dog and wold showed that the wolf is made to be free even if starving. However, if the wolf finds sheep clothing he will never go hungry. The wolf can not trust people for food because they will sooner hurt the wolf.

Bibliography

The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (1894):: The Lion's Share, The Sick Lion, Androcles, and the Lion, The Lion and The Statue, The Four Oxen and the Lion, The Lion in Love, The Lion, the Fox and the Beasts, The Ass and the Sick Lion, The wold and the Lamb, The Wolf and the Crane, The Dog and the Wolf, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Nurse and the Wolf