Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables Part B

Bibliography:

Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange (1692)

http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/aesops-fables-more-foxes.html

(Image Information: Sweet Grapes: https://kathakids.com/fables/sweet-grapes/)

-While Roger L'Estrange tells story in a more classic way, Smart tells the stories like a poem. I mentioned wanting to write a story of similar type in earlier reading notes and it may be a more difficult than I originally planned.

-In this story, a fox who sees a clump of grapes hanging from a tree and decides to eat them to quench his thirst. 

-The fox attempts to jump and retrieve the grapes, but they are out of reach. The fox is determined that the grapes must be sour and confidently, yet disappointedly, eventually walks away from the grapes when he sees that he cannot get them.

-The moral of the story is basically that you often hate what you cannot have and we all want what we cannot have. 

-Aesop likes to use third-person point of view to tell this story and he narrates the fable itself and gives the fox dialogue, even though the fox is alone and there is no one to hear what he says.