Rhetorical Analysis of Aesop’s “The Ant & the Grasshopper”

• Information about AESOP

Little is known about the famous Greek fable writer Aesop. He probably lived around 600 BC and is said to have come from Phrygia. He is regarded as the father of fable-telling. Aesop was a Greek slave. Any records on this fabulist are based on legends and myths. It is said that he was very close to the people and shared his wisdom with the people in humorous and funny tales. Having served under several different masters as a slave, Aesop is said to have been set free by the Samian Iadmon and subsequently he is said to have lived at the court of king Croesus. King Croesus, who was amazed by Aesop's smart wit, sent him on various missions. During one of these missions to Delphi, Aesop is said to have been killed by the local priestess for blasphemy. The European tradition of fable writing was founded on the basis of Aesop's legacy.

Aesop's Fables have been told and re-told, then written and re-written countless times as a form of entertainment and education. Anecdotal and comic sketches were everyday forms of amusement in ancient Athens and Delphi. Today these works envelop many realms of life including psychology, politics, spirituality, education, health and well-being. Whether the man himself or Aesop the modern construct of scholars, his influence and commentary on human behaviour has been firmly established.

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• What has changed and how has rhis changed your understanding of the story?

• Explain how this critical reading has changed your understanding of the story compared to when we first read it in class.

In my understanding the first reading was read in class for me was a simple and child to interpret it, but reading the second I realized that brings us the same message, that even a child could be seen more for us than the other carries the same moral is that everything in life involves a sacrifice and for everything there is to struggle and strive.

• Discuss how a critical understanding of Aesop's story shapes how your respond to Grosshan's modern version of Ant & Grasshopper. Wich version is better? Wich better reflects today's values? Why?

Aesop's version we see a story short, the author describes the story and more physically in this well there is more conversation between the characters and less narrative of the author. Anyway it's more simple and written for a child audience. In the modern version of Grosshan's  version a little more complex where they put the most adult and see what happens during life, in the first one was not so but we have the reaction that huvo between the ant and the grasshopper .But both end with the same education.

For me the best version is the first child because although it is more a story that happens a lot in the daily life of many people and more in the times in which we live. In the first story teaches us that in life there are priorities, and are the same who are often left to one side and leads to failure for not giving our maximum dedication to the things that are important in life. I think for everything there is time, is a matter of organizing. That is why for me the values ​​that better reflects the first but the second one shows also can.

The moral of the story has not changed, but if the understanding and in the first, written by Aesop fable is a child and the other characters are given more adult life but brings the same message. In the second story takes us to analyze more in the history of Aesop is a clearer and simpler.

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