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Comparing The Fables: The North Wind And The Sun
Fables were attributed to Aesop during the sixth century BCE. Aesop was born a slave, during his lifetime he had been owned by two different masters before gaining his freedom. As a free slave, Aesop told his fables during his travels, over pleasing King Croesus of Lydia, who later offered him residency and a job at his court. Two of the fables that were attributed to Aesop were The Ant and the Grasshopper and The North Wind and the Sun. With these two fables: the moral, values, and limitations of the stories will be discussed.
In the first fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper, the moral of the story is negligence leads to hardship. If neglecting what is important, then you will pay the price in the long run. For example, the grasshopper did not save any food for the winter and asked the ant for a bit of grain. The ant asked the grasshopper, “what have you been doing all summer” and the grasshopper said “I was busy all summer, singing.” Therefore, the grasshopper had to go hungry because he did not gather food to get him through the winter.
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Gentleness is when someone is doing something very kind, so the other person will repay them with kindness. Violence is a swift or intense force to compel another to act in a certain manner, but with violence the person is less likely to what you want them to do. For example, the north wind tried to get the man to take his coat off by blowing as hard as he can, but the man did just the opposite he tightened his coat across his chest. Then the sun tried but instead of using violence the sun used kindness and started to smile at the man. As the sun smiled the man started to get hot and eventually took off his coat; therefore, kindness proved to trump

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