Fables: A lesson for all
Reading a book or hearing a story is something that has been passed down for thousands of years, but not all literary readings teach you a valuable life lesson at the end of the story. Every book no matter the genre is able to teach someone a lesson from reading it, but not all are able to help with real world issues or life teachings that can be used day to day and carried on throughout life. Fables are literary readings that do this best, you are always walking away with a helpful lesson or teaching that can be implemented everyday. In certain fables you are taught that stealing is bad, this is something that we are always taught to follow, but people do tend to break it. “But this will not do, God will certainly …show more content…
People’s words are nothing without action to back them up. You have a solid understanding of what the moral lesson or what the teaching is from every story and it will always relate to your life, you never have to worry about reading something that may be misleading or that doesn’t apply to society. "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"(StoryArts.com) Fables do a really good job at showing this rather than other readings that may lead you on in different directions. Actions always speak louder than words and people trust actions more than hearing what someone has promised them. These are lessons that everyone has taken from fables this is one of the main reasons we still pass on stories today and have some of the sayings and quotes that we have. “Fast and steady wins the race” we have taken this from “The tortoise and the Hare” and it has been with us and passed down for decades. Without fables we wouldn’t learn the teachings that we did in other books. We wouldn’t have carried these lessons on with us and used them in our
Reading a book or hearing a story is something that has been passed down for thousands of years, but not all literary readings teach you a valuable life lesson at the end of the story. Every book no matter the genre is able to teach someone a lesson from reading it, but not all are able to help with real world issues or life teachings that can be used day to day and carried on throughout life. Fables are literary readings that do this best, you are always walking away with a helpful lesson or teaching that can be implemented everyday. In certain fables you are taught that stealing is bad, this is something that we are always taught to follow, but people do tend to break it. “But this will not do, God will certainly …show more content…
People’s words are nothing without action to back them up. You have a solid understanding of what the moral lesson or what the teaching is from every story and it will always relate to your life, you never have to worry about reading something that may be misleading or that doesn’t apply to society. "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"(StoryArts.com) Fables do a really good job at showing this rather than other readings that may lead you on in different directions. Actions always speak louder than words and people trust actions more than hearing what someone has promised them. These are lessons that everyone has taken from fables this is one of the main reasons we still pass on stories today and have some of the sayings and quotes that we have. “Fast and steady wins the race” we have taken this from “The tortoise and the Hare” and it has been with us and passed down for decades. Without fables we wouldn’t learn the teachings that we did in other books. We wouldn’t have carried these lessons on with us and used them in our