4La Grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le Boeuf
Une Grenouille vit un Bœuf, qui lui sembla de belle taille… Have you ever wanted to look like someone? To be as tall as them or to be blond instead of a brunette? If yes, this is the fable for you. This story is about vanity and changing yourself to be like someone else. A frog wants to be as big as an ox so it grows grows grows and finally explodes because it can’t survive with all this air inside it. The moral of the story is to be satisfied with who you are because you can never really change.
5La Lionne et l’Ourse
Mère Lionne avait perdu son faon, un chasseur l’avait pris. La pauvre infortunée…In this fable from La Fontaine, a lioness cries because her cub was killed by poachers. A bear is tired of hearing her cry and laments all day long so he explains to her that she has done the same thing to another mother: she ate somebody else’s children so she cannot be horribly sad of the death of her child since she has killed someone’s child herself. Does “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” sound familiar?
What are your favorite Fables de la Fontaine?
