This week I'm reading "Fables of La Fontaine" by Elizur Wright and W.T. Larned in the European readings unit.
All of these stories in this unit were really fun to read. I kind of looked ahead at part B of the readings and thought that it was kind of cool how most of Wright's stories were about animals, but Larned had kind of a mixture of stories about people and animals, so they were really entertaining and enjoyable to read through. Since there were a lot of little rhymes and stories within each section, it made it really fun and easy to read.
One of my favorite stories in this unit is "Foolish People". The title caught my eye because I always think it's fun to read stories that describe people as being silly or foolish, so I thought that this one would be funny right off the bat. There are three different stories within this section, "The Hen With The Golden Eggs", "The Acorn and the Pumpkin" and "The Miller, His Son and the Ass", which was by far my favorite.
"The Miller, His Son and the Ass" is about a miller and his son going to the fair in order to sell their donkey. They put him on a pole in order to keep him smelling fresh so that people would want him, but no one was actually interested. A lot of people made fun of them and shamed them because they thought that they believed they were better than everyone else and, finally, the miller decided to not sell the donkey at all and just went home and did what he want.
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