Essay: The Aesop for Children (Winter)

Essay: The Aesop for Children (Winter)

The Aesop for Children is a book of short stories ending in good morals and life lessons.  One of my favorite stories within the short stories was the Fox and the Leopard.  Especially in this day in age, so many people are so materialistic and worry about their outside appearance but then they forget the importance of knowing people for themselves.  The Leopard was so proud of his fur and how he looked that he kept bragging about it and put the fox down.  The smart fox knew what the leopard was doing and just let him keep bragging about himself because the Fox knew that he was smarter than the leopard on the inside.  This story ends with the moral teaching the readers that there is more to life than looking good on the outside.

Another one of my favorite stories out of the bunch was The Cat, The Cock, and The Young Mouse.  The saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” stems from this story here.  The young mouse had never seen or experienced anything in the world and did not know who was good or who was bad.  After coming across the cock and the cat, the little mouse was terrified of the cock because he thought he looked really scared.  He thought the opposite when he saw the cat.  The young mouse saw the cat and wanted to become friends with him because he thought the cat looked very friendly and soft.  Little did the young mouse know, the cat was the one that he should have been scared of and the cock was the friendly one and couldn’t hurt the little mouse.  This taught the mouse to never judge people on their appearance and how they look on the outside.  Some people can look very friendly but can turn out to be mean or hurtful and some of the people that don’t look the happiest or friendliest at the beginning turn out to be the most loyal friends. 

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