Week 12 Review

Poster: Patience

This is was my favorite piece from this week's Class Announcements. I think it is essential to allow ourselves to indulge in nature's clock and adapt a "go with the flow" type of attitude, so we do not get so caught up with life's happenings that it controls our each and every thought/movement.

Week 12 Reading Diary, continued

Aesop’s Fables: Part Two

The Lion and the Mouse

·       The Lion and the Man: This story shows that the lion is quite able to hold a conversation with man, but that does not mean the lion is able to do everything that a human can. In this case, lions cannot create sculptures.

·       The Lion and the Bulls: This story shows the lion is the more devious and treacherous creature, and used the strategy of "divide and conquer" that lead to trouncing the bulls.

·       The Lion and the Goats: In the previous fable, the bulls fell victim to the devious and treacherous lion, but in this fable the goats proved to me a little too wise for the lion.

·       The Lion King: The lion puts everything around him in danger because it confirms that both telling the truth and telling flattering lies are both fatal. Luckily for the lion, it is the fox that controls the situation by finding a solution to the problem at hand.

·       The Lion and the Mouse: In this famous fable, you are able to see a better side of the mighty beast, which we know as the lion.

·       The Wolf and the Lamb: The sheep in this fable is falsely accused by the dog and the wolf, but cannot win the fight against them, even though the gods get involved to offer justice into the situation at hand.

·       An Agreement between the Wolves and the Dogs: The Wolves and the Dogs could not get along, which in return cause havoc. We all know that a house divided cannot stand alone.

Aesop’sFables: Roger L’Estrange & Sir Brooke Boothy

Week 12 Reading Diary

Aesop’s Fable: Part One

·       The old experienced Lion gave some advice to his son, this piece of advice was that he should never contend with a man. He says if you do, then you will be Worsted.

·       The little lion listened to his father and put the advice in the back of his mind, but never got to his heart. When he grew up, he became very strong and vigor, which led him to looking for a man to wrestle with.

·       The grown lion approached a yoak of oxen and asked, “Heark ya Friends, are you men?” The oxen responded by telling him no, but their master was a man. This led him to asking a horse the same question, but the horse said no and told him as did the oxen that his master was a man.

·       He continues to move along until he runs into one that was cleaving of blocks, in which the lion asked if he was a man, where the man told him that he was one.

·       This prompted the lion to ask the man if he dared fight the lion and the man agreed to fight the lion. The man tricked the lion into sticking his foot into a gap, where it got caught and the man got the better of him. The lion eventually got back and went straight to his father. He had to tell his father that he did not follow his advice.

·       The exert at the end is “Disobedience to Parents is against the Laws of Nature and of Nations, Common Justice, Prudence and Good Manners; and the Vengeance of Heaven, Sooner or Later, Treads upon the Heels on't.”

The Grown Lion

Aesop’sFables (English), Roger L’Estrange (1692)