Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables Part B

Humans and Gods


These fables are part of the Aesop's Fables (Jacobs) unit. Story sources: The prose fables are from The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (1894) and the limericks and illustrations are from The Baby's Own Aesop by W. J. Linton and illustrated by Walter Crane (1887).


These stories, much like those in part A, were very short and to the point. Having done both reading assignments, I have thought of a few ways to retell these stories in my own style. One method would be to add information before and the after a story. While keeping the premise of the story the same, I could add details about the different characters and develop more of a plot. With regards to the short poem-like versions of each story, those would be difficult to lengthen as they would lose their style and structure. The other option I am considering is to keep the style and length of these stories but place them in a more familiar concept. Rather than a wagoner having to carry a heavy load, it could be a student who has several difficult classes in one semester who wishes for some form of divine intervention.


Other aspects of the style and plot were similar to the first set of readings are were discussed in reading notes Part A.















Photo of Avaricious and Envious, one of the fables from this reading from Wikipedia