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Essay Galaxy - Fables
Fables
Fables give lessons for younger children with small stories involving animal that can talk. A fable is a special kind of story, it is short, usually has animal characters, and teaches a lesson. The World encyclopedia says �Others are short poems. Some fables are the longer than a paragraph. Others are short poems. The characters are animals, but they talk and act like people. In fact, the meaning of these animals wisely says.� (P. 2)
Many of the best-known fables are said to be by Aesop, a Greek slave who lived about 600 B.C. About 200 years after Aesop�s death, the fables were collected by Demetrius Phalereus, the first manager of the great library at Alexandria, Later they were translated into Latin.
Some fables teach lessons on helping others. TOM IN THE RIVER is an example of one. It is about a boy named Tom who is not a good swimmer, one day when Tom is swimming on the ri....
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