Fables Lesson

Fables

Read the fables and then find the theme to the fables.

The Fox and the Grapes By: Aesop

"One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through a orchard till her came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. ‘Just the thing to quench my thirst,’ quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up and walked away with his nose in the air saying,’I am sure they are sour.’ "

​It is easy to despise what you cannot get.

Theme of The Fox and the Grapes