The Ant and the Grasshopper & The Honest Woodcutter

Title

en_US The Ant and the Grasshopper & The Honest Woodcutter

en_US Sawan World Famous Aesop's Fables

en_US WFAF3

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Date

2022-11-07T16:12:06Z

2022-11

en_US 2018

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 2018

Abstract

en_US The grasshopper here is fully clothed, with hat, jacket, and shoes. He is merry, and he loves to show off. The ant keeps working "to help my family store food for winter." "How silly!" is the grasshopper's reaction; he laughs to see the ants work while he enjoys himself. When winter comes, he sees through a window in their home how the ants are warm and comfortable, with plenty of food. "The grasshopper was self-conscious for the lack of precautions for winter." When he asks for help, the ant at first criticizes him, "but finally as a good neighbor and for the love of music, the ant helped the grasshopper with food and shelter on the promise of hard work as soon as the weather improved." A reader might ask what this part of the moral means: "Nothing is so good as being good." The honest woodcutter gets help from a beautiful fairy. She asks him a second time to identify his axe from among the three she eventually retrieves from the river. The woodcutter becomes prosperous, and a neighbor becomes jealous. The greedy neighbor says "yes" about the golden axe, and the fairy becomes angry with him for his "jealousy, dishonesty, and greed." She vanishes with the golden axe. This story curiously adds a detail that fellow woodcutters witness the man's dishonest act, and he feels ashamed.

Identifier

en_US 12789 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138970

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Manoj Publications

en_US Delhi, India

Subject

Aesop See all items with this value