Fairytales Reading Response
Aesop’s Fables are probably the best known, and most widely read of all fables. The U S Library of Congress has collected many of them in an online book: http://read.gov/aesop/001.html Don’t get turned off by the title. My 80+ father says, “everyone has to grow older–growing up is optional.”
Read through at least three or four different fables--aim to read a variety or variants of one type (all foxes, etc.) Write a paragraph about what you see as the differences between fairy tales and fables (apart from the length).
The fairy tales that the question mentioned are from the text book, and I’ve worked with you before about fairy tales so relate the text book’s fairy tales with the fables
aim to 250 words ” 1 Paragraph”
Textbook: The Classic Fairy Tales, edited by Maria Tatar (Norton) *Second Edition
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Please note this is very important: i’m an international student and my English level is 6/10 so it shouldn’t be a professional so put few grammar mistake like three or four and put few punctuation errors , and don’t use high English level of vocabulary. Use only basics and normal ones
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After reading about several fable tales such as the frog and the grapes, the frog and the ox, and the fox and the leopard, I have realized that there is a difference in the fables and fairy tales (Library of Congress, n.d.). I have identified this since I have tackled the stories in the classic fairy tales textbook. However it is good to highlight that both the fables and fairy tales are fictional stories and they are told on children. But with the fables, they can also be told to adults because they tell moral lesson at the end. On the other hand, looking at fairy tales they generally do not give moral lesson mostly they are for doing entertaining. They also drive you to a beautiful fantastic world thus enhancing…
(250 words)