Reading Notes: Aesop Winter Part A

The Ass and his Driver
A lazy donkey was going down a hill and did not want to go down such a long path so he saw an opportunity to take a short cut and go down the nearest cliff. His owner pulled him back and tried to stop him but he was determined to take the fastest way down and ended up tumbling down the cliff. For my story telling, I could add more to the beginning and the end. For the beginning, I could talk about how in a previous situation, the donkey had run through the ominous woods as a short cut instead of following the main road and he made it out fine and then when he tried the mountain cliff, he got scraped up a bit but he was also fine. He started becoming arrogant and self confident that he was invincible since he could go through a forest and down a cliff unharmed. So one day, he sees a long winding path to the other side of the farm that he didn't want to take and instead, he goes through the water and ends up drowning.


A donkey running off of a cliff: Flickr

Bibliography. Aesop's Fables by Milo Winter; link to the reading online

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