Having read the Aesop’s Fables, I find that vivid stories often interest readers. The form of story influences the desire of reading while the nuclear meanings of story influence readers whether to read it further or not. Set the Aesop’s Fables as an example, we can see that both the form and the hiding meanings of an article are quite necessary. So first of all, in our writing, we should think the use of word carefully so that our article is clear, brief, and easy to read. What’s more, it’s of significant importance to know what we truly want to express, that is, our nuclear thinking, which is the soul of an article. No matter what the meaning is, we should convey some ideas worth thinking. In most of the Aesop’s Fables, the characters are …show more content…
The accumulazing of words and sentence patterns can’t be ignored. What’s more, curiosity leads us to further study. Looking for more relative information after reading a story is necessary to learn English well.
In this semester, I have read the Aesop’s Fables, which dates back to BC sixth century .So some of the words and expressions are little bit different from these we use nowadays. Though most of the fables are short narratives, they convey some hidden meanings worth thinking.
The book makes me understand the importance of reading and know how weak I’m in reading comprehension. Not only is my reading speed slow, but also my thoughts after reading are immature. I haven’t fix some time to read English books before so my background knowledge and vocabulary are far from abundant.
Even to this semester, I only read this book following teacher’s advice and didn’t do some extra reading. The output is up to the input. Only when we read more and gain more, can we express ourselves more casually and write more good articles.
In English learning, I think, communication is necessary. So after reading, it’s better for teachers to organize us to exchange
This book was a good read for me, but I also read book reviews to help me keep track on what I am reading. These book reviews just made a better understanding of what I was reading.
This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didn’t really captivate me in the sense that I couldn’t put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started to appreciate the author’s way of describing the characters and actions in this book.
The book has taught me to be happy with what I have, and not to rush life. Also, the book has taught me to help others when they are in need. If I did what Coverly did in the book, I would have a very hard time trying to find work and trying to survive. I feel I am too young to work to support myself, and I have no money for food or shelter. Honora Wapshot taught me the importance of helping other people when they are in need. She lets a stranger into her house just because that person is in a horrible accident and needs help. This was a very kind and generous thing to do.
The birthplace of Aesop’s Fables originated in ancient Greece and is widely speculated to have been written by a slave named Aesop. Many critics over time have questioned the true original author of this book, however, they seem to agree that Greece is the actual geographical location of its birth. The specific version of Aesop’s Fables discussed in this essay started with a man named George Fyler Townsend, who began the process of recreating the book by translating it into English and publishing it in 1870. Townsend’s Aesop’s Fables represents a collection of translated stories that highlight morals above anything else, and these morals reflect the values that Townsend considered to be the most important to transmit from Aesop’s original version in Greek to the English-speaking people of his time.
Fiction stories are those stories not true or factual and are created by the author. These stories are imagined by the author and narrated to the reader. The reader has the opportunity to add their own imagination to the story to make the reading even more enjoyable. Fiction relies on the imagination of the author and the imagination of the reader along with the elements of fiction. Fiction readings are in the form of realistic and non-realistic. When discussing these two types of fiction readings two stories come to mind. The realistic story that comes to mind is the story of “A & P” by John Updike. John Updike is “…considered one of the best of American writers of fiction and poetry” and his story of “A & P” proves to be an ideal example of fiction (V., and Zweig 370). The non-realistic story is “The Fox and the Grapes”, which is found in Aesop’s Fables. Both of these narratives contain elements of fiction easily identified and therefore entertaining to discuss. Characters and point of view are two of the elements of fiction found in these two short stories. Discussion of these two elements, expand on the knowledge of fiction stories through examples and definitions.
... it was nice to not feel overwhelmed by the language used in the book. Overall, this book was insightful, entertaining and extremely helpful. I loved this book and highly recommend it.
... cross my mind but I find myself thinking differently since enrolling in this class. I enjoyed this book because it allowed me to relate to the main character, reflect on my life, and try to change myself in the process of reading it. I was able to see the parts of my life that had not been even fathomed before. When reading the book I found it difficult to read and somewhat boring but once I thought about the concepts and people involved in our class it gave me a better understanding of the book. One piece of advice would be to have the five people/ five concepts before reading these books because I feel I missed some key points looking back on the book. I feel that knowing these people/concepts before reading the book would have helped me understand the book better. This book was and interesting one and allows for every reader to have their own interpretation of it.
Although the greater picture is that reading is fundamental, the two authors have a few different messages that they seek to communicate to their audiences. “The Joy of Reading and Writing” depicts how reading serves as a mechanism to escape the preconceived notions that constrain several groups of people from establishing themselves and achieving success in their lifetimes. “Reading to Write,” on the other hand, offers a valuable advice to aspiring writers. The author suggests that one has to read, read, and read before he or she can become a writer. Moreover, he holds an interesting opinion concerning mediocre writing. He says, “Every book you pick has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (p.221). Although these two essays differ in their contents and messages, the authors use the same rhetorical mode to write their essays. Both are process analyses, meaning that they develop their main argument and provide justification for it step by step. By employing this technique, the two authors create essays that are thoughtful, well supported, and easy to understand. In addition, Alexie and King both add a little personal touch to their writings as they include personal anecdotes. This has the effect of providing support for their arguments. Although the two essays have fairly different messages, the authors make use of anecdotes and structure their writing in a somewhat similar
Further, the context in which the myth was written must be taken into account when reading the story. Bronislaw Malinowski in his essay “The Role of Myth in Life” says that “The text, of course, is extremely important, but without the context it remains lifeless” (Malinowski 201). The context that needs to be addressed when reading the myth are the cultural and sociological components that surround a mythological text. This context, consisting of the understanding of the culture in which the myth exte...
As with many of the writings of ancient Greece and Rome, “Aesop” (ca. 620-564 B.C.E.) can be attributed to many authors and oral traditions rather than a single author. The folk tales and fables of Aesop read like children’s stories regardless, they convey much about the adult traditions and attitudes of the time.
Almost everyone has heard about Aesop’s fables, but most people know very little about Aesop himself. Most of what we know about Aesop is a mixture of hearsay and conjecture. We do know that he was a slave in Greece. One theory is that before ^ had he came to Greece he lived in Ethiopia for most of his life and that “Aesop” is a muchshortened form of “the Ethiopian.” Aesop was not a storyteller then, though he would have loved to have spoken well enough to tell a good story. He stuttered so badly that he did not even try to talk. In one story we learn, however, that he could communicate. A neighbor brought a gift of figs to Aesop’s master. Greatly pleased, the master planned to enjoy the figs after his bath and directed that they were put in a cool place until he was ready.
The affective extension of the sometimes-opponent process (AESOP) is a model that focuses on affection and sensory stimuli. The AESOP model has regulations on how the stimulus is to be represented hence showing how learning occurs either as a primary or secondary component. The theories associated with the learning process assume that experiences are documented in the hypothetical memory structure. This theory assumes that a stimulus whether conditioned or unconditioned has a response that could be conditioned or unconditioned. Pavlov carried out trials that exhibited that a dog would drool when it a bell is rung or when hungry. The sound of a bell or hunger is stimuli that trigger a response of salivating in the dog. Pavlov saw that both conditioned
I read Aesop’s Fables. There are a lot of stories than my expectation, some stories are famous, but I didn’t know it is a part of it, and I enjoyed to read them. This is the educational stories for children, therefore it is written by a simple languages. Additionally, each story doesn’t use message as a metaphor, but tells directly it at the end.
The Uses of Story: according to Brunner, a story is illustrious from a trouncing string of events by a peripeteia; a sudden reversal in circumstances: “a seemingly true-blue English Oxbridge physician turns out to have leaking atomic secrets to the Russians, or a presumably merciful god all of a sudden asks the faithful Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac.” (Brunner.pp.5). Due to our vulnerability to narratives, one comes to await and believe in the traditional everyday experiences in a story. Stories display a sense of roadway to confront errors as well as surprises occurring in our daily lives. As humans, one is not always ambitious to exhibit our proclivity to stories. Brunner opens one’s mind to understanding the adamant truthfulness of l...
I embarked this tremendous trajectory on December 13, 2013 when we received the exciting news that we were starting an I-search paper! Oh yes, writing a six page long essay on only fifteen short stories will be so facile. NOT!!! On the bright side each day working on this project had led me to new insights and fantastic knowledge about Aesop and his fables. Which sincerely I thought there was not much to know. The first step was quite simple due to the fa...