life and It's fables.

   
     I am currently reading Aesop's fables. This book is not a actual one story book. There are 284 stories jammed into one, 243 page book. Each story is made to make us think deeply about life. In one very interesting story, Mercury and the woodsman. This story is what really made me love this book. This is where I first started to see what this book is actually wanting me to see. When i read each story I am seeing many morals that should make my life better. When I read each story I am seeing different morals that can prevent you from causing harm or suffering to yourself.
   
     "Honesty is the best policy", "Rude shocks await those who take themselves credit that is due to others", "Never count you chickens before they hatch". These are all morals in the book that they either made clear or I found out myself. I believe that Aesop is trying to give us a feeling of what the world would be like if we all followed these morals. He isn't telling us this but if we look deeper and think about all of these stories as one and not 284 separate ones, it shows a story about a bad life and what may happen to everyone who does not follow each of these morals.

     It is hard to believe that 284 stories can fit on 243 pages but I don't believe we are supposed to look at it as separate short stories. It;s true that each can give you a lesson and that's what each is designed to do. However if you can read these stories as one 243 page story, the morals seem to come closer together and show us a life that has been forced to go through all of these stories and that one person is telling his life story,but with different characters in each story.

     These stories fit together like a puzzle and show us a life story. Each of these read separately you learn. But if you read them together you see. This book shows us an allegory of what our life would look like if we did the opposite of all the morals  in the book. Instead of  being honest we lie, instead of give credit, we take it for ourselves. This is Aesop's Fables.