Fern catches word that her father is going to kill a pig because it is the runt of the litter and will eventually be more of a hassle than of any good. Fern cannot believe that her father would do such a thing. She grabs her father and says, “But it’s unfair, the pig couldn’t help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?”(3) I find this statement to be a very strong quote from the book because it is showing the innocence of a child who cannot understand that because something is so small you would kill it. She is trying to rationalize with her father, which ties in with Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of Development the period of concrete operations.
The wolf fell into it and died. The two little pigs now felt sorry for having been so lazy. They too built their houses with bricks and lived happily ever after. The conflict in this little story is man VS. man (wolf VS pig), literally the wolf trying to eat the pigs. The theme of this child’s story is that hard work really does pay off.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is about a boy who never really had much; he was born into rags and lived in rags his entire life until he was taken in by the Widow Douglas, who gave him clothes and tried to educate him. Huck did end up reading and continued school for a while, even if he only continued school just to spite his father. Huck hated and feared his father, seeing how Pap was unpredictable and was the town drunk. Lily’s father in the Secret Life of Bees also struck fear in his child. You could tell Lily was afraid of her father, seeing how she hesitated to tell him about events such as her birthday.
Walter is a Cunningham, so he is inferior and should be treated as such. Scout embraces the racism thrust on her and fails to see any other path. Also early in the novel Scout, Jem and Dill are afraid of Boo Radley, they think he is a monster and try to play tricks on him. They don’t know Boo Radley and have never seen him but still judge him on stories they have heard. They are threatened by him, and are scared to go on his property.
Children’s inexperience to life is a great way for authors to create lesson learning, life-like situations for readers by demonstrating bad decision making. For example, Jackie in “First Confession” is a young boy consumed by his emotions and driven by strong views of his grandmother and sister. He threatens his sister with a butter knife and refuses to eat grandma’s cooked meals because of his reluctance to show any approval of either of them. The hypocrisy he sees in both of them leads him in refusal to interact and even shun them from his life. He eventually plots to kill his own grandmother!
We tried keeping the signal fire going but we couldn’t. And then you, playing at hunting…”(Golding 178). He is also probably mad because his tribe is all work and no play and he sees that it’s not fair that Jacks tribe is all play and no work. His emotion turns to anger for Jack because the main objective is to get rescued but Jack is too arrogant to want to work to make it happen. Anger is an important emotion because it leads to violence like in the death of Piggy, Simon, and the attempt to kill
Winter approaches and the ants have a hill full of food while the grasshopper is left hungry with no food in sight. The next fable “The Fox And The Crow” is a fable about a vain crow, played by Robbie Hendrix, who is so into himself that when the fox , played by Laura Carroll, complements him he falls for her trick. The moral of this fable would be that vanity can make you susceptible to other people taking advantage of you. “The Two Stubborn Goats”, played by Nelson Heider and Kayla Jaeger, is a fable about two goats trying to cross a bridge. Because the two goats were hard-headed and stubborn they both wanted to cross at the same time not letting one or the other cross first.
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS Once upon a time there were three little pigs who lived with their mother. The three little pigs grew so quickly that one day their mother told them, “You are too big to live here any longer. Go and build houses for yourselves. But make sure the wolf doesn’t catch and eat you!” 1/The three little pigs set off down the road. Soon they met the man who was carrying some straw.
One day, an ugly toad saw Thumbelina and decided that Thumbelina must marry her son, who was also an ugly toad. Thumbelina did not want to marry the toad because he was ugly and she did not know him. She made friends with the fish in the pond around her and they helped her escape. Soon after she escaped, a flying beetle decided to take her away and marry her because she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen.
For example when they tricked their friend to eat the testicals of the pig. This really “humanized” them for me. Even when the step mother wanted to have babies, I could just imagine it happening in real life. Just no so open like they were in the village. O truly enjoyed it.