Birds
This section talks about peacocks in a few stories. I love peacocks and there is a temple in Austin, TX that has a lot of peacocks roaming about outside of it. Every time I go there I find it really peaceful and interesting to go out and find peacocks and see if they'll put their feathers up. One of the quotes that I like from the peacock stories is "one cannot be first in everything." I love this theme and would like to possibly write a story with that incorporated in it. Maybe I would write about a college student applying to graduate school and wanting to be involved in all the big organizations on campus as well as be in the top of their class. At the end, they would realize that they cannot be first in everything. There are some things they have to let go of; and even if they are not first in everything, they can still be successful.
Frogs
I loved the story about the Frogs and the Fish, where the frogs really wanted a king, and when they finally got one, he ate them all up. The moral of the story was "better no rule than cruel rule." I found that quite amusing, and was thinking I could retell this story, but set it in a particular nation. It could be in the 15th-17th century, when many countries were just getting started. I could write about the United States, for example, and write about the communities that existed before British colonies were a thing. The communities could complain about not having a leader and not having laws in place, and when they get colonized by the British, they realize that no leader was better than a bad one. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, but it was just something that came to mind! I could use any nation, and even make up names of leaders!
Another idea I have is to write my story in the form of a poem. If I cannot think of enough words for a poem to be 300 words (the minimum story word count), I might just add a short poem at the end of my story, just like it shows after every story in the Aesop's Fables collection.
Bibliography: Aesop's Fables by Joseph Jacobs.
This section talks about peacocks in a few stories. I love peacocks and there is a temple in Austin, TX that has a lot of peacocks roaming about outside of it. Every time I go there I find it really peaceful and interesting to go out and find peacocks and see if they'll put their feathers up. One of the quotes that I like from the peacock stories is "one cannot be first in everything." I love this theme and would like to possibly write a story with that incorporated in it. Maybe I would write about a college student applying to graduate school and wanting to be involved in all the big organizations on campus as well as be in the top of their class. At the end, they would realize that they cannot be first in everything. There are some things they have to let go of; and even if they are not first in everything, they can still be successful.
Source: A picture from Aesop's Fables; peacock feathers are one of a kind.
Frogs
I loved the story about the Frogs and the Fish, where the frogs really wanted a king, and when they finally got one, he ate them all up. The moral of the story was "better no rule than cruel rule." I found that quite amusing, and was thinking I could retell this story, but set it in a particular nation. It could be in the 15th-17th century, when many countries were just getting started. I could write about the United States, for example, and write about the communities that existed before British colonies were a thing. The communities could complain about not having a leader and not having laws in place, and when they get colonized by the British, they realize that no leader was better than a bad one. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, but it was just something that came to mind! I could use any nation, and even make up names of leaders!
Another idea I have is to write my story in the form of a poem. If I cannot think of enough words for a poem to be 300 words (the minimum story word count), I might just add a short poem at the end of my story, just like it shows after every story in the Aesop's Fables collection.
Bibliography: Aesop's Fables by Joseph Jacobs.
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